A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 1 April 2000 at 17:06 involving a car
A car crashed on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 17:06 on Saturday 1 April 2000. The 31-year-old male driver and a 4-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 2000
- Saturday, 17:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91105, longitude -3.21209, in the EH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950003044
- 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
- 702
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 March 1990
14 m awayRef 1990950334890
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 15 April 2017
20 m awayRef 2017950001183
Slight
Transbus Int crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 June 2015
20 m awayRef 2015950002934
Serious
Volvo crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 May 2018
28 m awayRef 2018950000643
Serious
Kia Picanto crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 June 2019
84 m awayRef 2019950000782
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 January 1984
89 m awayRef 198495184C046
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Bus stop or bus shelter
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2000950003044 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.