Serious B9085 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 30 December 1993 at 17:10 involving a Jaguar XJ Series
A Jaguar XJ Series hit a pedestrian on the B9085 in the City of Edinburgh at 17:10 on Thursday 30 December 1993. A 59-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 1993
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jaguar XJ Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.96766, longitude -3.24381, in the EH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993951474393
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 9085
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 2017.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 29 March 2017
At the same spotRef 2017950001087
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 13 June 2004
At the same spotRef 2004950004935
Serious
Car crash on the B9085 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 November 1991
At the same spotRef 1991951278791
Serious
Car crash on the B9085 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 June 1987
10 m awayRef 198795687B025
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 19 September 2001
10 m awayRef 2001950008206
Serious
Car crash on the B9085 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 July 1988
10 m awayRef 198895788B040
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar XJ Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,343 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Jaguar XJ Series)
- 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 1993951474393 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.