A6095 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 12 February 2014 at 10:54 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh at 10:54 on Wednesday 12 February 2014. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2014
- Wednesday, 10:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92943, longitude -3.16065, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southside/Newington, City of Edinburgh, EH16 5PG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950000827
- 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
- 6095
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 1998.
Slight
Car crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 March 1998
10 m awayRef 1998950425198
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 June 2016
10 m awayRef 2016950002978
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 January 1981
10 m awayRef 198195181A037
Slight
Car crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 August 1979
14 m awayRef 197995879A024
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 February 1983
14 m awayRef 198395283A023
Slight
Volvo crash on the B6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 June 2011
14 m awayRef 2011950003777
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2014950000827 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 2014.