Serious unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH16 on 4 August 2004 at 15:50 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 15:50 on Wednesday 4 August 2004. A 53-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Aug 2004
- Wednesday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94009, longitude -3.1733, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southside/Newington, City of Edinburgh, EH8 9HL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004950006520
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 2000.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 10 January 2000
14 m awayRef 2000950000268
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 10 December 2001
14 m awayRef 2001950011211
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 8 December 2005
14 m awayRef 2005950011047
Slight
Audi A3 crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 9 November 2011
14 m awayRef 2011950007238
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 11 March 2025
16 m awayRef 2025991563731
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 30 November 2001
20 m awayRef 2001950010816
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2004950006520 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.