A1 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 11 June 1991 at 11:50 involving a Rover SD1
A Rover SD1 hit a pedestrian on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh at 11:50 on Tuesday 11 June 1991. A 43-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jun 1991
- Tuesday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover SD1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94417, longitude -3.10664, in the EH15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991950644991
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 2021.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 February 2021
16 m awayRef 2021991022573
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 September 1983
20 m awayRef 198395983D027
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 October 2017
20 m awayRef 2017950002179
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 November 1996
22 m awayRef 1996951223896
Serious
BMW X5 crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 November 2024
26 m awayRef 2024991523247
Slight
Volvo crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 July 2013
30 m awayRef 2013950003638
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover SD1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,528 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 43, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover SD1)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1991950644991 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.