A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 6 July 2015 at 12:00 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a car were involved in a crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 12:00 on Monday 6 July 2015. A 59-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 2015
- Monday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89976, longitude -3.20405, in the EH10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colinton/Fairmilehead, City of Edinburgh, EH10 7EX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950003190
- 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
- 702
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 July 1981
At the same spotRef 198195781A023
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 October 1983
10 m awayRef 198395O83C047
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 31 July 1979
10 m awayRef 197995779C061
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198595O85C021
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 March 1982
10 m awayRef 198295382C066
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 June 2017
10 m awayRef 2017950001456
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2015950003190 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.