Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH30 on 19 March 2004 at 05:55 involving a Suzuki AN 400 motorcycle
A Suzuki AN 400 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 05:55 on Friday 19 March 2004. The 52-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 2004
- Friday, 05:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki AN 400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.98906, longitude -3.39745, in the EH30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Queensferry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Almond, City of Edinburgh, EH30 9LZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004950002388
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 1995.
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Slight
Car crash on the B967 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 March 1983
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Serious
Car crash on the B907 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 February 1986
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Slight
Car crash on the B907 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 April 1982
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki AN 400
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 385 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki AN 400)
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 2004950002388 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 2004.