A7 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 13 April 2003 at 12:05 involving a Lexus IS200
A Lexus IS200 hit a pedestrian on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh at 12:05 on Sunday 13 April 2003. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Apr 2003
- Sunday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexus IS200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9036, longitude -3.12565, in the EH17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950003099
- 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
- 7
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 1997.
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Slight
Ford Cougar crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 December 2010
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Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 June 1984
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Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 July 1989
28 m awayRef 198995789A010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexus IS200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Lexus IS200)
- 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 2003950003099 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.