Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH6 on 20 January 2007 at 01:45 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 01:45 on Saturday 20 January 2007. A 32-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2007
- Saturday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.96713, longitude -3.16482, in the EH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leith, City of Edinburgh, EH6 5HB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950000617
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 1990.
Slight
Dodge crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 1 June 1990
At the same spotRef 1990950659390
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 September 1984
14 m awayRef 198495984D009
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 15 July 1988
14 m awayRef 198895788D017
Serious
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 26 March 2025
18 m awayRef 2025991608021
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 26 February 2001
36 m awayRef 2001950001973
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 June 1996
45 m awayRef 1996950571996
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2007950000617 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 2007.