Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH11 on 26 July 2012 at 17:59 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 17:59 on Thursday 26 July 2012. A 31-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 26 Jul 2012
- Thursday, 17:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93277, longitude -3.25951, in the EH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart, City of Edinburgh, EH14 1SS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012950004094
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 2005.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 8 November 2005
At the same spotRef 2005950009962
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 21 August 1992
At the same spotRef 1992950955392
Slight
Van crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 2 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198495284C003
Slight
Taxi crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 17 December 2008
At the same spotRef 2008950011026
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 10 March 2007
At the same spotRef 2007950002132
Slight
Van crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 6 January 1983
At the same spotRef 198395183C003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2012950004094 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.