Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH13 on 24 October 1997 at 17:50 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 17:50 on Friday 24 October 1997. A 6-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
- 24 Oct 1997
- Friday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9102, longitude -3.22069, in the EH13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997951101397
- 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
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1997951101397 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.