A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 6 March 2014 at 16:23 involving a Rover 75
A Rover 75 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:23 on Thursday 6 March 2014. The 26-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 2014
- Thursday, 16:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 75 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93624, longitude -3.20904, 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
- 2014950001300
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 1990.
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 June 1990
At the same spotRef 1990950766490
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 December 2010
At the same spotRef 2010950009722
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 June 2009
At the same spotRef 2009950004670
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 2 November 1989
10 m awayRef 198995N89B043
Slight
MCW Metrocab crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 October 1990
10 m awayRef 1990951297790
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 October 1986
10 m awayRef 198695O86C010
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 75
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 26, on vehicle 2 (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 2014950001300 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.