Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH4 on 2 September 1998 at 16:00 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 16:00 on Wednesday 2 September 1998. A 2-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
- 2 Sep 1998
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9641, longitude -3.25779, in the EH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998950862298
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 25 May 1981
14 m awayRef 198195581B034
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 21 October 1983
94 m awayRef 198395O83B031
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 27 August 1995
104 m awayRef 1995950870695
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 8 March 1987
108 m awayRef 198795387B005
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 13 August 1996
120 m awayRef 1996950805596
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 6 September 2007
136 m awayRef 2007950007602
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 2, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- 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 1998950862298 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.