Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH12 on 31 March 2005 at 16:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 16:00 on Thursday 31 March 2005. A 22-year-old female 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
- 31 Mar 2005
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94519, longitude -3.23109, in the EH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sighthill/Gorgie, City of Edinburgh, EH11 2FD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950002819
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 1998.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 July 1998
10 m awayRef 1998950722398
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 July 2006
41 m awayRef 2006950005793
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 29 May 2021
46 m awayRef 2021991052663
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 29 September 1993
50 m awayRef 1993951057093
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 April 1993
50 m awayRef 1993950363293
Slight
Car crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 March 1987
50 m awayRef 198795387C057
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2005950002819 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.