A199 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 18 November 2010 at 22:14 involving a Nissan Note
A Nissan Note, a Suzuki Ignis and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A199 in the City of Edinburgh at 22:14 on Thursday 18 November 2010. A 16-year-old male passenger in the Nissan Note was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 2010
- Thursday, 22:14
- Vehicles
- 3
- Nissan Note and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94861, longitude -3.0866, in the EH15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Portobello/Craigmillar, City of Edinburgh, EH15 2LL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950008600
- 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
- 199
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 July 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the A199 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 July 1986
10 m awayRef 198695786D013
Serious
Car crash on the B6415 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 February 1988
14 m awayRef 198895288D001
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 12 December 1999
14 m awayRef 1999950011869
Slight
Citroen Nemo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 July 2018
23 m awayRef 2018950000884
Slight
Toyota Proace crash on the B6415 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 December 2025
26 m awayRef 2025991678001
Serious
Car crash on the A199 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 March 1982
30 m awayRef 198295382D010
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,386 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Ignis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Note)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2010950008600 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.