C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH12 on 25 May 2005 at 12:40 involving a Suzuki Baleno
A Suzuki Baleno hit a pedestrian on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 12:40 on Wednesday 25 May 2005. An 83-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 May 2005
- Wednesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Baleno
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94061, longitude -3.28378, in the EH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Corstorphine/Murrayfield, City of Edinburgh, EH12 7TX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950004457
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 36%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 64%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 2008.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 October 2008
At the same spotRef 2008950008043
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 15 August 1982
At the same spotRef 198295882C009
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 5 December 1997
10 m awayRef 1997951269697
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 19 March 1988
10 m awayRef 198895388C028
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 9 February 1982
10 m awayRef 198295282C010
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 13 August 1991
10 m awayRef 1991950900291
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Baleno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,839 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 83, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki Baleno)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 2005950004457 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.