A902 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 8 November 1998 at 20:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh at 20:20 on Sunday 8 November 1998. The 35-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 1998
- Sunday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97463, longitude -3.18362, 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
- 1998951116698
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 2004.
Slight
Hyundai X2 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 2 January 2004
At the same spotRef 2004950000030
Slight
Renault crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 May 1998
At the same spotRef 1998950479498
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 April 1998
At the same spotRef 1998950344598
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 17 October 2006
At the same spotRef 2006950009171
Slight
Leyland crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 March 1993
At the same spotRef 1993950340993
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 9 October 2004
At the same spotRef 2004950008734
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1998951116698 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.