A772 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 21 June 2013 at 23:55 involving a car
A car crashed on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh at 23:55 on Friday 21 June 2013. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 2013
- Friday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90325, longitude -3.12484, in the EH17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013950003355
- 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
- Rural
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1989.
Slight
Van crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 December 1989
At the same spotRef 198995D89B020
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198995O89B079
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 August 1994
At the same spotRef 1994950869694
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198495384A043
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 June 1989
At the same spotRef 198995689A025
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 June 1981
At the same spotRef 198195681A056
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2013950003355 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 2013.