Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH14 on 1 May 2007 at 17:50 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 17:50 on Tuesday 1 May 2007. A 41-year-old male 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
- 1 May 2007
- Tuesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89832, longitude -3.31437, in the EH14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pentland Hills, City of Edinburgh, EH14 5NL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950003780
- 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
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198895888F004
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 12 April 1997
57 m awayRef 1997950387397
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 19 December 1994
81 m awayRef 1994950028995
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 19 January 1995
86 m awayRef 1995950063095
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 15 January 1992
117 m awayRef 1992950053292
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 13 September 1981
117 m awayRef 198195981F051
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- 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 2007950003780 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.