C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH13 on 31 July 2014 at 17:45 involving a Honda CBF125M motorcycle
A Honda CBF125M motorcycle hit a pedestrian on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 17:45 on Thursday 31 July 2014. An 18-year-old female 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
- 31 Jul 2014
- Thursday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBF125M
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90915, longitude -3.23139, in the EH13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colinton/Fairmilehead, City of Edinburgh, EH13 9DY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950004229
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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 light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 December 1995.
Serious
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 19 December 1995
10 m awayRef 1995951348395
Serious
Morris 440 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 1 February 1994
32 m awayRef 1994950122494
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 16 June 2012
32 m awayRef 2012950003330
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 12 January 1990
41 m awayRef 1990950042290
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 29 June 1979
41 m awayRef 197995679C045
Slight
Bedford crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 1 October 1992
45 m awayRef 1992951131992
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBF125M
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda CBF125M)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, 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 2014950004229 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.