Serious unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH14 on 11 July 1989 at 17:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 17:30 on Tuesday 11 July 1989. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jul 1989
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91369, longitude -3.29232, in the EH14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198995789C015
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 1993.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 November 1993
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Slight
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20 m awayRef 2003950001128
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 3 May 2017
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Slight
DS DS4 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 September 2025
40 m awayRef 2025991637532
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 August 2015
41 m awayRef 2015950003821
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 30 August 1995
45 m awayRef 1995950885295
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 9, 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 198995789C015 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.