A900 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 10 August 2007 at 22:20 involving a Hyundai Lantra
A Hyundai Lantra hit a pedestrian on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh at 22:20 on Friday 10 August 2007. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2007
- Friday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai Lantra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97501, longitude -3.16698, 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 6SL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950006977
- 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
- 900
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 10 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198995189D006
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 November 1995
At the same spotRef 1995951228895
Slight
Volvo crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 January 2014
At the same spotRef 2014950000289
Slight
Bus crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 February 1990
10 m awayRef 1990950200990
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 August 2001
10 m awayRef 2001950006795
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 January 2006
14 m awayRef 2006950000412
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Lantra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai Lantra)
- 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 2007950006977 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.