A7 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 18 November 2010 at 12:50 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh at 12:50 on Thursday 18 November 2010. The 31-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 2010
- Thursday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95002, longitude -3.18737, in the EH1 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.
Map of where the crash happened in the City of Edinburgh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950008521
- 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
- 7
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 24 December 1999.
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 December 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950012426
Slight
Bus crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 July 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950006963
Slight
Bus crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198695786A026
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 December 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950012625
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 August 1993
At the same spotRef 1993950918393
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 September 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950008842
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Cycle lane (on main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 31, 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 2010950008521 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.