Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH30 on 19 April 2014 at 07:38 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 07:38 on Saturday 19 April 2014. The 45-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 2014
- Saturday, 07:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9689, longitude -3.34368, in the EH30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950002127
- 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
- 60 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
- 34%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 66%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 18 December 1989
41 m awayRef 198995D89F026
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 1 September 1998
73 m awayRef 1998950857798
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the B9080 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 September 2014
133 m awayRef 2014950004688
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 29 December 2011
196 m awayRef 2011950008269
Slight
Vespa (Douglas) P200E crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 27 December 1997
238 m awayRef 1997951364597
Slight
Opel Kadett crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 6 January 1995
279 m awayRef 1995950028695
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,157 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2014950002127 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.