A6106 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 28 February 2017 at 13:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A6106 in the City of Edinburgh at 13:15 on Tuesday 28 February 2017. A 50-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Feb 2017
- Tuesday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93493, longitude -3.11454, in the EH15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Portobello/Craigmillar, City of Edinburgh, EH15 3FL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017950000751
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6106
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2023.
Slight
Lexus IS 250 crash on the A6106 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 November 2023
6 m awayRef 2023991380137
Serious
Fiat Doblo crash on the A6106 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 November 2019
7 m awayRef 2019950897494
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A6106 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 March 2011
10 m awayRef 2011950001649
Slight
Car crash on the A6106 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 February 1982
14 m awayRef 198295282D008
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A6106 in the City of Edinburgh, 10 January 2023
15 m awayRef 2023991262887
Fatal
Car crash on the A6106 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 January 1988
20 m awayRef 198895188D009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
- 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 2017950000751 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 2017.