C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH5 on 18 November 1998 at 19:10 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 19:10 on Wednesday 18 November 1998. The 26-year-old female driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 1998
- Wednesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 600 Series and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.96944, longitude -3.23666, in the EH5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998951164098
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 1997.
Slight
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Slight
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Serious
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 22 January 1983
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Slight
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10 m awayRef 198695286B006
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 27 May 1979
10 m awayRef 197995579B049
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,850 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
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 1998951164098 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.