A900 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 14 April 1996 at 15:10 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 hit a pedestrian on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh at 15:10 on Sunday 14 April 1996. An 11-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
- 14 Apr 1996
- Sunday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.96527, longitude -3.17629, in the EH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996950376996
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 900
- 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 serious injury crash on 6 February 2016.
Serious
MAN crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 February 2016
At the same spotRef 2016950000903
Slight
Car crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 January 1987
At the same spotRef 198795187D008
Serious
Leyland crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 June 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950005726
Slight
Bus crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 July 2012
At the same spotRef 2012950004106
Slight
Bus crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 December 2001
At the same spotRef 2001950011809
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 May 2025
6 m awayRef 2025991593887
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- 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 1996950376996 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.