Serious A6095 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 6 March 1993 at 22:50 involving a Ford Cortina
A Ford Cortina crashed on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh at 22:50 on Saturday 6 March 1993. The 33-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Mar 1993
- Saturday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Cortina
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93278, longitude -3.15257, in the EH16 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993950264193
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6095
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 2019.
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 February 2019
10 m awayRef 2019950000213
Serious
Car crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 June 1984
10 m awayRef 198495684A023
Slight
Car crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 May 1989
10 m awayRef 198995589A024
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 October 1986
14 m awayRef 198695O86A041
Serious
Car crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 March 1984
22 m awayRef 198495384A038
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 December 1979
32 m awayRef 197995D79A045
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Cortina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Cortina)
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 1993950264193 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 1993.