A90 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 6 October 2007 at 20:24 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Honda CRV were involved in a crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh at 20:24 on Saturday 6 October 2007. A 41-year-old female passenger in the Honda CRV was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2007
- Saturday, 20:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Honda CRV
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.96037, longitude -3.3011, in the EH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Drum Brae/Gyle, City of Edinburgh, EH4 7QF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950008801
- 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
- 90
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 701
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 1997.
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 August 1997
At the same spotRef 1997950898697
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 31 December 1997
At the same spotRef 1997951380697
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 January 2005
At the same spotRef 2005950000278
Slight
Minibus crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198795487C027
Serious
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 June 1985
At the same spotRef 198595685C028
Slight
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198795O87C055
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda CRV)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2007950008801 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.