A8 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 28 May 2006 at 02:00 involving a London Taxis Int. Txii
A London Taxis Int. Txii hit a pedestrian on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh at 02:00 on Sunday 28 May 2006. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 2006
- Sunday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- London Taxis Int. Txii
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94861, longitude -3.21183, in the EH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre, City of Edinburgh, EH3 8BZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950004621
- 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
- 8
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 35%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 65%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 October 1983.
Serious
Taxi crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 October 1983
At the same spotRef 198395O83C039
Slight
Leyland crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 October 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950009523
Slight
Scania crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 December 2006
At the same spotRef 2006950011204
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 April 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950003882
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 June 1996
10 m awayRef 1996950570996
Slight
Leyland crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 August 1996
10 m awayRef 1996950813396
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: London Taxis Int. Txii
Taxi or private hire 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
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 24,202 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (London Taxis Int. Txii)
- 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 2006950004621 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.