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Fatal A1 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 12 September 1997 at 16:22 involving a Ford Fiesta

A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:22 on Friday 12 September 1997. An 84-year-old female pedestrian was killed.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Fatal
Date
12 Sep 1997
Friday, 16:22
Vehicles
1
Ford Fiesta
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94793, longitude -3.13781, in the EH8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997950948397
Council area
City of Edinburgh
Police force
Lothian and Borders

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

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 22 April 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years
    Engine capacity
    999 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Female, aged 84, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    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 1997950948397 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.