A902 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 17 April 1991 at 08:10 involving a Renault 5
A Renault 5 hit a pedestrian on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh at 08:10 on Wednesday 17 April 1991. A 95-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Apr 1991
- Wednesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault 5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9753, longitude -3.17932, in the EH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991950430891
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 901
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 October 2008.
Slight
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At the same spotRef 198795487D014
Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 23 November 2002
10 m awayRef 2002950010686
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 95, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault 5)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 1991950430891 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 1991.