A701 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 23 March 2015 at 07:30 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 hit a pedestrian on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh at 07:30 on Monday 23 March 2015. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2015
- Monday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91237, longitude -3.16349, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Liberton/Gilmerton, City of Edinburgh, EH16 6JA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950001253
- 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
- 701
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2016.
Slight
Renault Trucks crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 February 2016
At the same spotRef 2016950001142
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 August 2001
At the same spotRef 2001950007005
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 20 October 2003
10 m awayRef 2003950008670
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 September 2011
10 m awayRef 2011950006060
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 15 February 2001
10 m awayRef 2001950001608
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 October 1988
14 m awayRef 198895O88A032
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2015950001253 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 2015.