A70 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 12 August 1986 at 14:12 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh at 14:12 on Tuesday 12 August 1986. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 1986
- Tuesday, 14:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92523, longitude -3.24549, in the EH14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198695886C014
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 70
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 1996.
Slight
Leyland crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 February 1996
At the same spotRef 1996950159596
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 December 1985
At the same spotRef 198595D85C050
Serious
Van crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 September 1980
At the same spotRef 198095980C054
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 January 2016
At the same spotRef 2016950000712
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 February 2020
2 m awayRef 2020990941633
Slight
Vauxhall Crossland crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 November 2025
7 m awayRef 2025991702526
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, 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 198695886C014 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 1986.