A71 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 13 August 1986 at 20:10 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh at 20:10 on Wednesday 13 August 1986. The 16-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 1986
- Wednesday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93006, longitude -3.25605, in the EH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198695886C016
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 71
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 August 1979
At the same spotRef 197995879C084
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 December 1989
At the same spotRef 198995D89C017
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 March 1985
At the same spotRef 198595385C019
Slight
Nissan Laurel crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 July 1991
At the same spotRef 1991950733491
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 June 1984
At the same spotRef 198495684C020
Slight
Leyland crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 November 1994
At the same spotRef 1994951236594
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 16, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198695886C016 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.