A8 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 11 September 2008 at 10:04
A vehicle crashed on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh at 10:04 on Thursday 11 September 2008. An 89-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Sep 2008
- Thursday, 10:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94825, longitude -3.21262, in the EH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre, City of Edinburgh, EH3 8BZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950007595
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 8
- 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
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 1998.
Slight
Dennis crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 March 1998
10 m awayRef 1998950271998
Slight
Car crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 January 1996
10 m awayRef 1996950035196
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 September 1998
10 m awayRef 1998950948298
Slight
Car crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 March 1988
10 m awayRef 198895388C006
Slight
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 February 1992
10 m awayRef 1992950227092
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 August 2002
10 m awayRef 2002950006774
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 89, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
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 2008950007595 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 2008.