C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH11 on 15 June 2006 at 17:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 17:30 on Thursday 15 June 2006. A 39-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
- 15 Jun 2006
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93551, longitude -3.246, 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, EH14 1SS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950005287
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Involvement with previous collision
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 26 February 1980.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 26 February 1980
At the same spotRef 198095280C038
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 20 August 1992
10 m awayRef 1992950945792
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 22 April 1999
10 m awayRef 1999950386399
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 12 September 1987
10 m awayRef 198795987C022
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 8 January 1993
10 m awayRef 1993950025593
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 23 May 2005
10 m awayRef 2005950004400
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2006950005287 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.