A902 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 29 December 1997 at 11:30 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh at 11:30 on Monday 29 December 1997. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1997
- Monday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97453, longitude -3.1849, in the EH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997951372697
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 902
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 July 2010.
Serious
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 9 July 2010
At the same spotRef 2010950004923
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 June 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950005050
Serious
Car crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 December 1981
10 m awayRef 198195D81D001
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 1 February 2012
14 m awayRef 2012950000648
Slight
Car crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 July 1983
14 m awayRef 198395783D010
Fatal
Iveco crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 8 December 2014
14 m awayRef 2014950006374
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 1997951372697 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.