Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH3 on 18 November 1991 at 03:45 involving a Talbot Solara
A Talbot Solara crashed on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 03:45 on Monday 18 November 1991. A 29-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 1991
- Monday, 03:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Talbot Solara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94728, longitude -3.21449, in the EH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991951472791
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 11 September 1991.
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 September 1991
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Slight
Bicycle crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 January 1990
At the same spotRef 1990950013290
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 February 1990
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Slight
Bicycle crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 January 2011
At the same spotRef 2011950000434
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 July 1991
At the same spotRef 1991950732491
Serious
Van crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 September 1989
10 m awayRef 198995989C040
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Talbot Solara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,592 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Talbot Solara)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1991951472791 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.