A900 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 2 May 2006 at 18:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh at 18:30 on Tuesday 2 May 2006. The 44-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2006
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95958, longitude -3.18334, in the EH7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leith Walk, City of Edinburgh, EH7 5JR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950003831
- 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
- 900
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 15 February 2007
At the same spotRef 2007950001465
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 October 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950009236
Fatal
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 28 September 2025
At the same spotRef 2025991648865
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 April 2004
At the same spotRef 2004950003308
Slight
Taxi crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 November 1983
At the same spotRef 198395N83B032
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 11 May 1979
10 m awayRef 197995579B006
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 44, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2006950003831 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 2006.