A90 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 23 June 2015 at 18:30 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira, a Citroen C3 and a car were involved in a crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh at 18:30 on Tuesday 23 June 2015. The 43-year-old female driver of the Citroen C3 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
- 23 Jun 2015
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Zafira and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.96268, longitude -3.27393, in the EH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Almond, City of Edinburgh, EH4 5EB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950002995
- 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
- 90
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 9085
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2016.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 October 2016
At the same spotRef 2016950004812
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 March 2005
10 m awayRef 2005950002151
Slight
Car crash on the A90 in Midlothian, 5 May 2000
10 m awayRef 2000950004030
Slight
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 August 1989
10 m awayRef 198995889B017
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 11 March 1992
10 m awayRef 1992950292692
Slight
Volvo crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 April 1992
10 m awayRef 1992950461392
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C3)
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 2015950002995 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.