A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 20 December 2012 at 09:00 involving a Nissan Note
A Nissan Note and a car were involved in a crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 09:00 on Thursday 20 December 2012. The 25-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2012
- Thursday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Note and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93569, longitude -3.20998, 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
- 2012950007225
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 2014.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 January 2014
At the same spotRef 2014950000504
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 26 June 1992
At the same spotRef 1992950719892
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 May 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950004798
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 February 1980
At the same spotRef 198095280C006
Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 6 November 1992
At the same spotRef 1992951293492
Serious
Citroen Synergie crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 March 2006
At the same spotRef 2006950002525
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,386 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2012950007225 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.