A71 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 8 December 2000 at 19:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh at 19:30 on Friday 8 December 2000. A 34-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2000
- Friday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93179, longitude -3.2502, 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
- 2000950011368
- 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
- 71
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 1 December 1999.
Slight
Bus crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 December 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950011364
Serious
Vespa (Douglas) crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 June 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950005733
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 July 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950006718
Slight
Lorry crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 October 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950010036
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 December 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950011489
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 November 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950010383
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2000950011368 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.