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Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH15 on 6 February 1998 at 13:00 involving a Ford Sierra

A Ford Sierra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 13:00 on Friday 6 February 1998. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
6 Feb 1998
Friday, 13:00
Vehicles
1
Ford Sierra
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94418, longitude -3.10472, in the EH15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998950136698
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
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
1

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine with high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2010.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    51 years
    Engine capacity
    1,769 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)

    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 1998950136698 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 1998.