A90 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 3 April 2014 at 18:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh at 18:30 on Thursday 3 April 2014. The 38-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series 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
- 3 Apr 2014
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93396, longitude -3.25731, in the EH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart, City of Edinburgh, EH14 1SS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the City of Edinburgh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950001826
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 90
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 1987.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 19 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198795587C035
Fatal
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 13 November 1992
At the same spotRef 1992951325492
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 8 January 1994
At the same spotRef 1994950027394
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 26 February 2024
4 m awayRef 2024991506058
Slight
Leyland crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 21 November 1997
10 m awayRef 1997951209297
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 August 2009
10 m awayRef 2009950006021
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2014950001826 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.