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Serious unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH17 on 8 August 1994 at 01:30 involving a Kawasaki KH125 motorcycle

A Kawasaki KH125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 01:30 on Monday 8 August 1994. The 24-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
8 Aug 1994
Monday, 01:30
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki KH125
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89423, longitude -3.13416, in the EH17 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1994950838294
Council area
City of Edinburgh
Police force
Lothian and Borders

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
C

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 25 February 2015.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki KH125

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years
    Engine capacity
    124 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    4 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki KH125)

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 1994950838294 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.