A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 18 August 1994 at 16:30 involving a Skoda Favorit
A Skoda Favorit hit a pedestrian on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:30 on Thursday 18 August 1994. A 25-year-old female 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
- 18 Aug 1994
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Favorit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92667, longitude -3.20921, in the EH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994950877494
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 702
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 14 March 2000.
Slight
Car crash on the B702 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 March 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950002497
Serious
Van crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 April 1994
At the same spotRef 1994950395394
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 17 November 2012
At the same spotRef 2012950006461
Slight
Taxi crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198795387A032
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 October 2019
At the same spotRef 2019950891463
Slight
Leyland crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 November 1995
At the same spotRef 1995951231295
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Favorit
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,289 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Favorit)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1994950877494 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.