A1 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 24 January 2000 at 11:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh at 11:15 on Monday 24 January 2000. The 30-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2000
- Monday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94551, longitude -3.09228, in the EH15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950000753
- 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
- 1
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 December 1983
At the same spotRef 198395D83D035
Serious
Van crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 October 1985
At the same spotRef 198595O85D028
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 February 1979
At the same spotRef 197995279D014
Slight
Reliant Metrocab crash on the A199 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 February 1992
At the same spotRef 1992950178592
Serious
Car crash on the A199 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198795287D019
Slight
Car crash on the A199 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198895188D018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2000950000753 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 2000.