Serious A902 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 31 January 1990 at 18:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh at 18:50 on Wednesday 31 January 1990. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jan 1990
- Wednesday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97015, longitude -3.21922, in the EH5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990950137390
- 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
- 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
- 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 6 July 2015.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 6 July 2015
At the same spotRef 2015950003193
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 September 2020
5 m awayRef 2020990986075
Serious
Lorry crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198595O85B012
Slight
Car crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 10 May 1983
22 m awayRef 198395583B024
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 March 1989
22 m awayRef 198995389B025
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 August 1980
22 m awayRef 198095880B002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 16, 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 1990950137390 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 1990.