Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH17 on 11 July 1997 at 18:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 18:20 on Friday 11 July 1997. A 16-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
- 11 Jul 1997
- Friday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.903, longitude -3.13777, in the EH17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997950713397
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 9 October 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 9 October 1983
10 m awayRef 198395O83A036
Slight
Car crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 10 May 1987
20 m awayRef 198795587A016
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 September 1995
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Serious
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54 m awayRef 2008950003881
Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on the B17 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 February 2021
57 m awayRef 2021991024311
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 21 October 1982
67 m awayRef 198295O82A021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- 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 1997950713397 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.