Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH7 on 10 March 2012 at 21:00 involving a Peugeot Ludix motorcycle
A Peugeot Ludix motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 21:00 on Saturday 10 March 2012. The 24-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2012
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Ludix
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.96047, longitude -3.1848, in the EH7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leith Walk, City of Edinburgh, EH7 5JR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012950001469
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 1994.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 29 June 1994
At the same spotRef 1994950704694
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 27 February 1996
At the same spotRef 1996950214996
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 25 May 1987
10 m awayRef 198795587B029
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 12 December 1979
10 m awayRef 197995D79B013
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 19 August 2002
10 m awayRef 2002950007408
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 30 November 2007
10 m awayRef 2007950010394
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Ludix
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Peugeot Ludix)
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 2012950001469 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 2012.