Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH12 on 4 November 1998 at 18:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 18:00 on Wednesday 4 November 1998. A 9-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 4 Nov 1998
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93315, longitude -3.28768, in the EH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
Map of where the crash happened in the City of Edinburgh
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998951096598
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2000.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 26 January 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950000829
Slight
Car crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 September 1980
At the same spotRef 198095980C017
Serious
Kia Sportage crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 April 2024
9 m awayRef 2024991432808
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 9 October 2012
10 m awayRef 2012950005619
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 2 August 2006
10 m awayRef 2006950006772
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 20 May 2006
10 m awayRef 2006950004361
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 1998951096598 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.