Serious A701 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 19 January 1995 at 16:45 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:45 on Thursday 19 January 1995. A 71-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jan 1995
- Thursday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9268, longitude -3.16728, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995950066095
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 701
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2024.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 10 March 2024
8 m awayRef 2024991420992
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 2 July 2001
10 m awayRef 2001950005821
Serious
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Slight
Lada Samara crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 July 1990
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Slight
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Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 31 August 2001
10 m awayRef 2001950007632
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1995950066095 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 1995.