A90 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 5 April 1996 at 11:25 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro hit a pedestrian on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh at 11:25 on Friday 5 April 1996. A 75-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 1996
- Friday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95128, longitude -3.21061, in the EH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996950345596
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 90
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 13 August 1990.
Slight
Leyland crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 August 1990
At the same spotRef 1990950977790
Serious
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 March 1979
At the same spotRef 197995379C030
Slight
FSO Cars Polonez crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 February 1991
At the same spotRef 1991950172791
Slight
Leyland crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 July 1993
At the same spotRef 1993950713193
Slight
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198195381C041
Serious
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 December 1989
At the same spotRef 198995D89C009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
- 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 1996950345596 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 1996.