A701 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 14 September 2006 at 15:14 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh at 15:14 on Thursday 14 September 2006. A 19-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 2006
- Thursday, 15:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89698, longitude -3.16128, in the EH17 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 6HD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950008101
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 21 November 1991.
Serious
Van crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 November 1991
At the same spotRef 1991951343791
Serious
Car crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 December 1988
10 m awayRef 198895D88A012
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 January 1984
10 m awayRef 198495184A024
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 December 2017
14 m awayRef 2017950002543
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 March 1980
30 m awayRef 198095380A003
Slight
Van crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 August 1979
50 m awayRef 197995879A033
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2006950008101 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.