Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH4 on 16 November 2014 at 21:15 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 21:15 on Sunday 16 November 2014. The 39-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 2014
- Sunday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97427, longitude -3.24308, in the EH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Forth, City of Edinburgh, EH4 4GG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950005825
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 26 March 1979
10 m awayRef 197995379B031
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 28 January 1979
10 m awayRef 197995179B021
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 22 September 1982
10 m awayRef 198295982B024
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 19 June 1998
14 m awayRef 1998950594298
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 14 August 1994
14 m awayRef 1994950862094
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 1 July 2001
22 m awayRef 2001950007773
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 39, on vehicle 1 (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 2014950005825 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.