A71 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 5 June 1997 at 17:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh at 17:15 on Thursday 5 June 1997. A 14-year-old female 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
- 5 Jun 1997
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93174, longitude -3.25066, in the EH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997950574897
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 71
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198595N85C060
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 January 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950000991
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 May 2003
At the same spotRef 2003950003728
Serious
Citroen AX crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 January 1997
At the same spotRef 1997950007497
Slight
Audi A6 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 26 September 2023
3 m awayRef 2023991356628
Slight
Volvo S90 crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 October 2022
7 m awayRef 2022991226975
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 1997950574897 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.