Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH4 on 1 July 1996 at 15:10 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 15:10 on Monday 1 July 1996. A 6-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 1996
- Monday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97432, longitude -3.24242, in the EH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996950667596
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- 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 1996950667596 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.