Serious A902 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 16 February 1989 at 11:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh at 11:35 on Thursday 16 February 1989. A 78-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Feb 1989
- Thursday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.96175, longitude -3.2417, in the EH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198995289B028
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 902
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 February 1998
10 m awayRef 1998950214498
Serious
Car crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 December 1982
10 m awayRef 198295D82B019
Slight
Car crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 September 1979
10 m awayRef 197995979B046
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 January 2011
10 m awayRef 2011950000041
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 July 1992
10 m awayRef 1992950766992
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 October 2017
10 m awayRef 2017950002303
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
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 78, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 198995289B028 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 1989.