B701 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 5 April 2015 at 13:05 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh at 13:05 on Sunday 5 April 2015. The 56-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 2015
- Sunday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Insignia and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91145, longitude -3.1273, in the EH17 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 4SP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950001685
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 701
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- 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
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 September 1979
10 m awayRef 197995979A054
Slight
Bus crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 February 1979
10 m awayRef 197995279A023
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 10 October 1997
10 m awayRef 1997951050997
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 10 January 1997
14 m awayRef 1997950031097
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 November 1988
14 m awayRef 198895N88A045
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 24 December 1991
41 m awayRef 1991951523191
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 56, on vehicle 2 (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 2015950001685 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.