Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH13 on 10 April 1998 at 21:00 involving a Nissan Micra
A car and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 21:00 on Friday 10 April 1998. The 33-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Apr 1998
- Friday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90487, longitude -3.22356, 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
- 1998950359998
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 2014.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,235 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
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 1998950359998 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.