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A71 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 21 February 1994 at 11:50 involving a Yamaha motorcycle

A Yamaha motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh at 11:50 on Monday 21 February 1994. A 38-year-old male pedestrian and the 27-year-old male rider were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
21 Feb 1994
Monday, 11:50
Vehicles
1
Yamaha
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.937, longitude -3.2361, 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
1994950237294
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
Urban or rural
Urban

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
Raining, 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 7 August 2006.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Yamaha

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years
    Engine capacity
    123 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    18 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Yamaha)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

  • Casualty 2: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)

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 1994950237294 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 1994.