A71 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 13 January 2005 at 00:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh at 00:50 on Thursday 13 January 2005. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 2005
- Thursday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91448, longitude -3.349, in the EH28 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950000317
- 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
- 71
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 September 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 September 1981
At the same spotRef 198195981F021
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 January 1980
10 m awayRef 198095180F009
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 July 1981
22 m awayRef 198195781F049
Serious
Honda CBR600F crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 March 2003
22 m awayRef 2003950002641
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 November 1981
22 m awayRef 198195N81F023
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 May 1982
22 m awayRef 198295582F051
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2005950000317 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 2005.