A90 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 27 December 2000 at 17:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh at 17:15 on Wednesday 27 December 2000. The 17-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2000
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950012089
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 90
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, lighting unknown
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2000950012089 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.