A70 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 11 March 2005 at 17:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh at 17:30 on Friday 11 March 2005. A 40-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
- 11 Mar 2005
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93374, longitude -3.23457, in the EH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart, City of Edinburgh, EH11 1RW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950002271
- 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
- 70
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 March 1996
At the same spotRef 1996950272996
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 31 March 2021
9 m awayRef 2021991032485
Slight
Dennis crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 May 1998
10 m awayRef 1998950523598
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 June 1980
10 m awayRef 198095680C003
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 May 1991
10 m awayRef 1991950509291
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 10 March 1992
10 m awayRef 1992950288392
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 40, hit by 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 2005950002271 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.