Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH12 on 16 February 2011 at 06:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa van
A Vauxhall Corsa van crashed on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 06:50 on Wednesday 16 February 2011. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2011
- Wednesday, 06:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95305, longitude -3.30534, in the EH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Drum Brae/Gyle, City of Edinburgh, EH12 8XU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011950001150
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 July 1984.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 23 July 1984
10 m awayRef 198495784C029
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 November 2009
22 m awayRef 2009950008812
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 22 August 1990
22 m awayRef 1990950997790
Serious
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 July 2009
28 m awayRef 2009950004958
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 28 July 1991
42 m awayRef 1991950834691
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 23 July 1984
70 m awayRef 198495784C038
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2011950001150 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 2011.