Serious C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH10 on 6 February 2009 at 04:05 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 04:05 on Friday 6 February 2009. The 20-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Feb 2009
- Friday, 04:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91847, longitude -3.22529, in the EH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colinton/Fairmilehead, City of Edinburgh, EH13 9DY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009950000905
- 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
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 January 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 6 January 1982
10 m awayRef 198295182C004
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 August 1993
22 m awayRef 1993950843093
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 27 February 1986
32 m awayRef 198695286C058
Slight
Scooter crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 22 February 1988
71 m awayRef 198895288C026
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 June 1984
100 m awayRef 198495684C008
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 29 January 1979
120 m awayRef 197995179C054
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
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 2009950000905 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 2009.