A902 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 20 October 2012 at 07:45 involving a Subaru Impreza
A Subaru Impreza crashed on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh at 07:45 on Saturday 20 October 2012. The 38-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2012
- Saturday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Impreza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94973, longitude -3.31323, in the EH12 postcode district. 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
- 2012950005867
- 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
- 902
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 1993.
Slight
TVR crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 10 September 1993
At the same spotRef 1993950978393
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 November 2003
10 m awayRef 2003950009425
Slight
Car crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 October 1983
10 m awayRef 198395O83C040
Serious
Lorry crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 February 1979
10 m awayRef 197995279C021
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 December 1990
10 m awayRef 1990951591190
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 5 October 1981
10 m awayRef 198195O81C005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
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 2012950005867 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.