A8 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 30 December 1990 at 18:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh at 18:20 on Sunday 30 December 1990. A 20-year-old female pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1990
- Sunday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94273, longitude -3.28224, in the EH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990951616790
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 8
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 1 January 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 January 2016
At the same spotRef 2016950000018
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 December 2013
At the same spotRef 2013950006875
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 April 2010
At the same spotRef 2010950002853
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 August 2001
At the same spotRef 2001950007352
Serious
Seat Leon crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 January 2010
At the same spotRef 2010950000336
Slight
Volvo crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 September 2022
7 m awayRef 2022991220767
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1990951616790 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.