C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH2 on 26 February 2010 at 19:20 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper hit a pedestrian on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 19:20 on Friday 26 February 2010. A 32-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2010
- Friday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95379, longitude -3.19741, in the EH2 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, EH2 2HG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950001599
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2010.
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 12 March 2010
At the same spotRef 2010950001952
Serious
Bus crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 February 1979
At the same spotRef 197995279B034
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 26 February 1994
At the same spotRef 1994950227094
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 19 August 2008
At the same spotRef 2008950007143
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 27 April 2025
4 m awayRef 2025991584492
Slight
Renault 21 crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 29 March 1994
10 m awayRef 1994950358494
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2010950001599 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 2010.