Serious A68 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 30 July 1991 at 18:30 involving an MG Metro
An MG Metro hit a pedestrian on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh at 18:30 on Tuesday 30 July 1991. A 76-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jul 1991
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92143, longitude -3.14615, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991950844091
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 68
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 12 May 2016.
Fatal
Ford KA crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 12 May 2016
10 m awayRef 2016950002450
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 March 1991
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Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 November 1996
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Slight
LEVC TX crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 13 November 2025
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 February 1992
14 m awayRef 1992950219892
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 October 2015
14 m awayRef 2015950004461
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (MG Metro)
- 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 1991950844091 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.