A7 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 30 December 1999 at 16:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:00 on Thursday 30 December 1999. The 30-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1999
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95002, longitude -3.18737, in the EH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999950012625
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 7
- 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 unlit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2010.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 November 2010
At the same spotRef 2010950008521
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 December 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950012426
Slight
Bus crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 July 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950006963
Slight
Bus crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198695786A026
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 August 1993
At the same spotRef 1993950918393
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 September 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950008842
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 1999950012625 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.