A71 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 4 May 1997 at 08:00 involving a Nissan Sunny
A Nissan Sunny crashed on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh at 08:00 on Sunday 4 May 1997. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 1997
- Sunday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Sunny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91969, longitude -3.30324, in the EH11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997950453797
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 71
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 71
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 5 August 2007.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 August 2007
At the same spotRef 2007950006743
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 October 1995
At the same spotRef 1995951096295
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 December 1992
At the same spotRef 1992951480092
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 10 September 2004
At the same spotRef 2004950007736
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 May 2007
At the same spotRef 2007950003806
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 March 1989
10 m awayRef 198995389C039
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,270 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)
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 1997950453797 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.