Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH1 on 22 August 2006 at 14:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 14:30 on Tuesday 22 August 2006. A 59-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 22 Aug 2006
- Tuesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95604, longitude -3.18691, in the EH1 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
- 2006950007302
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 October 2022.
Serious
Car crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 October 2022
5 m awayRef 2022991230965
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 12 August 2000
10 m awayRef 2000950007194
Slight
Car crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 December 1983
10 m awayRef 198395D83B036
Slight
Taxi crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 June 1979
10 m awayRef 197995679B034
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 October 2005
10 m awayRef 2005950008623
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 September 2002
10 m awayRef 2002950008628
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2006950007302 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.