Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH17 on 22 November 1998 at 09:00 involving a Vauxhall Frontera
A Vauxhall Frontera crashed on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 09:00 on Sunday 22 November 1998. The 32-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 1998
- Sunday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Frontera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90372, longitude -3.13779, in the EH17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998951165698
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Frontera)
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 1998951165698 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.