A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 7 February 1987 at 16:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:00 on Saturday 7 February 1987. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 1987
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9361, longitude -3.20918, in the EH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198795287C014
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 702
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 serious injury crash on 27 June 1995.
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 27 June 1995
At the same spotRef 1995950648895
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198995289A034
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 February 2020
7 m awayRef 2020990925715
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 2 November 1989
10 m awayRef 198995N89B043
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 October 1986
10 m awayRef 198695O86C010
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 February 1999
10 m awayRef 1999950201499
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198795287C014 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.