A701 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 30 July 2006 at 00:50 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh at 00:50 on Sunday 30 July 2006. The 22-year-old male driver 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
- 30 Jul 2006
- Sunday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91616, longitude -3.16713, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Liberton/Gilmerton, City of Edinburgh, EH16 6JA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950006568
- 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
- 701
- 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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 November 1984.
Serious
Car crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 20 November 1984
10 m awayRef 198495N84A036
Serious
Car crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 July 1982
10 m awayRef 198295782A021
Slight
Kawasaki ZX1100 crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 November 1997
10 m awayRef 1997951128697
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 January 1981
10 m awayRef 198195181A023
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 10 August 2001
14 m awayRef 2001950006927
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 June 1996
14 m awayRef 1996950657596
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,793 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2006950006568 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.