Serious C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH16 on 23 December 1989 at 15:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 15:15 on Saturday 23 December 1989. A 77-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 1989
- Saturday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9345, longitude -3.14206, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198995D89D032
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2013.
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 77, 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 198995D89D032 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.