A720 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 26 April 2003 at 06:55 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra crashed on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh at 06:55 on Saturday 26 April 2003. The 39-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 2003
- Saturday, 06:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89691, longitude -3.20606, in the EH10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colinton/Fairmilehead, City of Edinburgh, EH10 7EX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950003431
- 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
- 720
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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 16 May 2005.
Slight
Fiat Scudo crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 May 2005
10 m awayRef 2005950004173
Slight
MAN crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 December 2010
10 m awayRef 2010950009617
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 June 2006
14 m awayRef 2006950004766
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 November 1990
22 m awayRef 1990951336490
Serious
Van crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 October 1986
22 m awayRef 198695O86C052
Serious
Car crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 October 2021
25 m awayRef 2021991094223
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
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 2003950003431 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.