A6095 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 4 December 2014 at 18:00 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh at 18:00 on Thursday 4 December 2014. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2014
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93375, longitude -3.11132, in the EH15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Portobello/Craigmillar, City of Edinburgh, EH15 3FL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950006313
- 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
- 6095
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 1997.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 30 October 1997
At the same spotRef 1997951119697
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 September 1998
At the same spotRef 1998950860498
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 January 2014
10 m awayRef 2014950000360
Slight
Minibus crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 May 1979
20 m awayRef 197995579D003
Slight
Bus crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 July 1980
30 m awayRef 198095780A010
Slight
Car crash on the A6095 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 December 2010
30 m awayRef 2010950009206
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 2014950006313 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.