A90 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 25 December 2000 at 05:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh at 05:25 on Monday 25 December 2000. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on an icy dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2000
- Monday, 05:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950012027
- 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
- 90
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, 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 2000950012027 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.