A90 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 2 October 2015 at 11:00 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh at 11:00 on Friday 2 October 2015. The 66-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 2015
- Friday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9703, longitude -3.32641, in the EH30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950004333
- 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
- 90
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 December 1981
At the same spotRef 198195D81F030
Fatal
Van crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198795887F025
Slight
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 November 1986
14 m awayRef 198695N86F028
Slight
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 August 1987
14 m awayRef 198795887F016
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 March 2022
22 m awayRef 2022991156341
Slight
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 November 1979
28 m awayRef 197995N79F038
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2015950004333 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.