B702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 11 January 2001 at 15:45 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406 hit a pedestrian on the B702 in the City of Edinburgh at 15:45 on Thursday 11 January 2001. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jan 2001
- Thursday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 406
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9321, longitude -3.21003, in the EH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Morningside, City of Edinburgh, EH10 4DR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001950000334
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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 17 July 1981.
Slight
Bus crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 July 1981
At the same spotRef 198195781C025
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B702 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 June 2007
At the same spotRef 2007950005180
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198195381A001
Slight
Bus crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 January 1987
At the same spotRef 198795187C013
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B702 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 July 2010
At the same spotRef 2010950004935
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 July 2025
6 m awayRef 2025991633887
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2001950000334 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 2001.