A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 14 July 2011 at 10:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van hit a pedestrian on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 10:00 on Thursday 14 July 2011. A 59-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2011
- Thursday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93597, longitude -3.20951, in the EH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Morningside, City of Edinburgh, EH10 4DR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011950004667
- 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
- 702
- 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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 1995.
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 June 1995
At the same spotRef 1995950609995
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 September 1984
At the same spotRef 198495984C016
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 April 2005
At the same spotRef 2005950003718
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198495784A019
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198895188C060
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 December 1995
10 m awayRef 1995951334395
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2011950004667 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.