Serious A772 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 28 September 2012 at 12:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh at 12:30 on Friday 28 September 2012. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Sep 2012
- Friday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90942, longitude -3.13845, in the EH17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Liberton/Gilmerton, City of Edinburgh, EH17 8NR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012950005381
- 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
- 772
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 12 March 2012.
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 March 2012
At the same spotRef 2012950001506
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198795287A020
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 February 1984
14 m awayRef 198495284A016
Slight
Van crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 July 1979
14 m awayRef 197995779A044
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 August 1981
36 m awayRef 198195881A015
Slight
Volvo crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 December 2014
36 m awayRef 2014950006872
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2012950005381 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.