C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH15 on 11 October 2008 at 09:45 involving a Honda Jazz
A bicycle and a Honda Jazz were involved in a crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 09:45 on Saturday 11 October 2008. The 20-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 2008
- Saturday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94009, longitude -3.1448, in the EH15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Portobello/Craigmillar, City of Edinburgh, EH16 4EZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950008318
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 1992.
Slight
Honda NH80MD crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 8 June 1992
At the same spotRef 1992950651992
Serious
Van crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 28 June 2001
10 m awayRef 2001950005710
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 31 May 1980
10 m awayRef 198095580D023
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 21 January 2000
30 m awayRef 2000950000652
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 23 February 1997
30 m awayRef 1997950213697
Slight
Renault 19 crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 18 January 1997
32 m awayRef 1997950057597
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 20, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2008950008318 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.