A900 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 17 January 1987 at 22:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh at 22:20 on Saturday 17 January 1987. A 55-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 1987
- Saturday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95709, longitude -3.18549, 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
- 198795187B019
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 900
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 30 September 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 September 1981
At the same spotRef 198195981B051
Slight
Van crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198795287B028
Slight
MCW Metrocab crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 November 1990
At the same spotRef 1990951453190
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 November 1982
At the same spotRef 198295N82B004
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 April 2017
7 m awayRef 2017950001269
Serious
Volvo crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 August 2024
8 m awayRef 2024991478873
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 198795187B019 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 1987.