A71 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 19 May 1993 at 13:30 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra hit a pedestrian on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh at 13:30 on Wednesday 19 May 1993. A 63-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
- 19 May 1993
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93248, longitude -3.24812, in the EH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993950540593
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 71
- 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 10 November 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 10 November 1981
At the same spotRef 198195N81C068
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198795O87C036
Serious
Honda CBF 125 crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 January 2023
6 m awayRef 2023991259751
Slight
Taxi crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 February 1985
10 m awayRef 198595285C050
Slight
Van crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 November 1986
10 m awayRef 198695N86C003
Serious
Hyundai i10 crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 June 2016
10 m awayRef 2016950002766
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,235 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 63, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 1993950540593 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.