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Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH15 on 21 September 1996 at 01:00 involving a Metrocab Metrocab taxi

A Metrocab Metrocab taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 01:00 on Saturday 21 September 1996. A 29-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
21 Sep 1996
Saturday, 01:00
Vehicles
1
Metrocab Metrocab
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94139, longitude -3.11536, in the EH15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1996950966396
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
A
Second road number
6106

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
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 6 July 1983.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Metrocab Metrocab

    Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Lane or location
    Entering lay-by or hard shoulder
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    53 years
    Engine capacity
    2,496 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Metrocab Metrocab)

    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 1996950966396 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.