A901 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 6 July 1999 at 14:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh at 14:30 on Tuesday 6 July 1999. An 8-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
- 6 Jul 1999
- Tuesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97056, longitude -3.17246, 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
- 1999950006284
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 901
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2000.
Slight
Car crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 December 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950012016
Slight
Car crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 July 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950007072
Slight
Volvo crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 August 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950007205
Slight
Car crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 December 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950011981
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 June 2012
At the same spotRef 2012950003254
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 14 May 1982
10 m awayRef 198295582D010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 1999950006284 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 1999.