A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 2 August 1991 at 14:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 14:45 on Friday 2 August 1991. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 1991
- Friday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92631, longitude -3.2092, in the EH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991950856791
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 702
- 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
- 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 9 July 1992.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 July 1992
At the same spotRef 1992950773092
Slight
Leyland crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 July 1997
At the same spotRef 1997950759397
Slight
Leyland crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 March 1995
At the same spotRef 1995950263595
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 January 1982
At the same spotRef 198295182A020
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 November 1981
At the same spotRef 198195N81C059
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 September 1982
At the same spotRef 198295982C053
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 1991950856791 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.