A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 30 July 1987 at 19:15
A vehicle crashed on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 19:15 on Thursday 30 July 1987. The 37-year-old male driver 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
- 30 Jul 1987
- Thursday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94065, longitude -3.20372, 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
- 198795787C033
- 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
- T or staggered 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 17 August 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 August 2012
At the same spotRef 2012950004541
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 28 November 1996
At the same spotRef 1996951252696
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 October 1983
At the same spotRef 198395O83A008
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198695986C022
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 December 1980
10 m awayRef 198095D80C038
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 February 2003
10 m awayRef 2003950000939
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
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 198795787C033 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.