A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 11 February 1988 at 17:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 17:15 on Thursday 11 February 1988. The 59-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 1988
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93169, longitude -3.21, 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
- 198895288C021
- 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
- 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 23 February 2010.
Slight
Car crash on the B702 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 February 2010
At the same spotRef 2010950001782
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198795587A026
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 October 1995
At the same spotRef 1995951010595
Slight
Minibus crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 June 1981
At the same spotRef 198195681C016
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 March 1998
At the same spotRef 1998950346698
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 March 2014
At the same spotRef 2014950001270
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 59, 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 198895288C021 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 1988.