Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH16 on 2 August 2013 at 16:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A bicycle and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 16:00 on Friday 2 August 2013. The 29-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2013
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9324, longitude -3.12136, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Portobello/Craigmillar, City of Edinburgh, EH16 4DY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013950004034
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2009.
Slight
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Slight
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 August 2003
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Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 24 November 2007
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 15 June 1994
36 m awayRef 1994950660494
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 28 July 1980
36 m awayRef 198095780A042
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 29, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2013950004034 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.