A70 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 29 December 2003 at 16:28 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:28 on Monday 29 December 2003. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2003
- Monday, 16:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94514, longitude -3.21748, in the EH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre, City of Edinburgh, EH3 8BZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950000286
- 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
- 70
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2004.
Slight
Renault crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 September 2004
At the same spotRef 2004950008098
Serious
Car crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 10 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198595985C025
Fatal
Renault Clio crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 March 2008
At the same spotRef 2008950002533
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 September 1990
At the same spotRef 1990951046990
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 November 2013
At the same spotRef 2013950006257
Serious
Kawasaki AR125 crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 February 1998
10 m awayRef 1998950198298
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2003950000286 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 2003.