A772 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 23 May 1997 at 16:45 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion hit a pedestrian on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:45 on Friday 23 May 1997. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 1997
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91794, longitude -3.15389, 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
- 1997950533797
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 772
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 1992.
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 January 1992
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Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 December 1982
14 m awayRef 198295D82A036
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 December 1983
14 m awayRef 198395D83A003
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 October 2018
20 m awayRef 2018950001370
Slight
Bus crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 June 1996
22 m awayRef 1996950572796
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 September 2012
22 m awayRef 2012950005207
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 1997950533797 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.