A7 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 5 September 1991 at 08:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh at 08:20 on Thursday 5 September 1991. An 11-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
- 5 Sep 1991
- Thursday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91334, longitude -3.14672, in the EH17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991950992091
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 7
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 2021.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 May 2021
8 m awayRef 2021991047039
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 August 2024
8 m awayRef 2024991484365
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 August 2022
9 m awayRef 2022991204609
Slight
Renault Captur crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 20 February 2020
12 m awayRef 2020990932356
Slight
Bus crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 December 1983
14 m awayRef 198395D83A055
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 March 1998
14 m awayRef 1998950295198
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 1991950992091 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.