Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH1 on 1 December 1985 at 01:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 01:00 on Sunday 1 December 1985. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 1985
- Sunday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95191, longitude -3.19174, in the EH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198595D85B054
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 1992.
Slight
Taxi crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 25 June 1992
At the same spotRef 1992950721892
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 24 June 1992
At the same spotRef 1992950710892
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 21 September 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950008515
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 24 October 2025
10 m awayRef 2025991658637
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 3 July 1995
10 m awayRef 1995950671595
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 21 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198595D85B033
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 198595D85B054 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the City of Edinburgh road accident statistics for 1985.