A6095 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 14 March 1997 at 22:35 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion hit a pedestrian on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh at 22:35 on Friday 14 March 1997. A 47-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 1997
- Friday, 22:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93234, longitude -3.14264, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997950289897
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6095
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 1987.
Slight
Bus crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198795587A025
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 January 1993
10 m awayRef 1993950086693
Slight
Toyota Hiace crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 December 1990
10 m awayRef 1990951578790
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 27 August 2018
10 m awayRef 2018950001159
Fatal
Leyland crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 September 1995
22 m awayRef 1995950983495
Slight
Leyland crash on the B6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 July 2003
30 m awayRef 2003950005432
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 1997950289897 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 1997.