Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH6 on 30 November 2016 at 17:30 involving a Ford Focus
A car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 17:30 on Wednesday 30 November 2016. The 32-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2016
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97051, longitude -3.18704, in the EH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016950005693
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 9 March 2011
At the same spotRef 2011950001669
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 27 August 1989
10 m awayRef 198995889B036
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 1 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198495D84B059
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 18 January 2011
10 m awayRef 2011950000442
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 31 December 1987
14 m awayRef 198795D87B048
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 29 July 1984
20 m awayRef 198495784B025
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
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 2016950005693 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 2016.