A7 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 7 October 2015 at 13:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh at 13:00 on Wednesday 7 October 2015. The 45-year-old female 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
- 7 Oct 2015
- Wednesday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92134, longitude -3.14599, in the EH16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Liberton/Gilmerton, City of Edinburgh, EH16 5QU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950004461
- 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
- 7
- 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
- C
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 February 1992
At the same spotRef 1992950219892
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 February 1995
At the same spotRef 1995950156995
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 May 2004
At the same spotRef 2004950004129
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 March 1980
At the same spotRef 198095380A041
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 July 1988
At the same spotRef 198895788A052
Slight
Leyland crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 May 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950004266
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 45, 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 2015950004461 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.