B701 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 26 July 2015 at 23:50 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 crashed on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh at 23:50 on Sunday 26 July 2015. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2015
- Sunday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94441, longitude -3.29382, in the EH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Corstorphine/Murrayfield, City of Edinburgh, EH12 7TX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950003511
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2012.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 May 2012
At the same spotRef 2012950002660
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 July 1994
At the same spotRef 1994950744894
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 August 1990
At the same spotRef 1990950994290
Slight
Volvo crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 September 2011
At the same spotRef 2011950005796
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 November 2022
5 m awayRef 2022991246042
Slight
Car crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 May 1982
10 m awayRef 198295582C029
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
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 2015950003511 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.