A1 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 12 December 1986 at 08:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh at 08:00 on Friday 12 December 1986. A 59-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 1986
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95507, longitude -3.15179, in the EH8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198695D86D009
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2004.
Slight
Transbus Int crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 October 2004
At the same spotRef 2004950009442
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 April 2015
3 m awayRef 2015950002475
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 December 2023
4 m awayRef 2023991393057
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 July 1998
10 m awayRef 1998950686998
Fatal
Ford Transit crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 December 1995
10 m awayRef 1995951366295
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 January 1984
10 m awayRef 198495184D022
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198695D86D009 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.