Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH11 on 4 December 2000 at 20:45 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 20:45 on Monday 4 December 2000. The 22-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2000
- Monday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92969, longitude -3.2623, in the EH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950011278
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198995589C002
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 20 December 1982
At the same spotRef 198295D82C067
Slight
Lorry crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 February 1986
10 m awayRef 198695286C001
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 September 1982
10 m awayRef 198295982C032
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 October 2000
10 m awayRef 2000950009018
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 November 2017
10 m awayRef 2017950002461
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 22, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2000950011278 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.