Serious A720 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 11 June 1990 at 15:35 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh at 15:35 on Monday 11 June 1990. The 13-year-old male cyclist 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 Jun 1990
- Monday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9336, longitude -3.28802, in the EH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990950699590
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 720
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 December 1981.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 December 1981
At the same spotRef 198195D81C048
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 October 2007
20 m awayRef 2007950008454
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 16 November 2004
32 m awayRef 2004950010056
Slight
Bus crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 August 1980
32 m awayRef 198095880C077
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 23 April 2003
41 m awayRef 2003950003340
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 November 1990
45 m awayRef 1990951364990
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 13, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1990950699590 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.