A8 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 29 June 2017 at 11:58 involving a Volkswagen Transporter
A Volkswagen Transporter, another vehicle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh at 11:58 on Thursday 29 June 2017. A 21-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Volkswagen Transporter was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jun 2017
- Thursday, 11:58
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Transporter and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.943, longitude -3.29105, 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
- 2017950001609
- 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
- 8
- 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
- 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 2002.
Slight
Bus crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 January 2002
10 m awayRef 2002950000103
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 October 2005
10 m awayRef 2005950008747
Slight
Car crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 March 2016
10 m awayRef 2016950001687
Slight
Volvo crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 May 2018
10 m awayRef 2018950000596
Serious
Volvo crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 May 2021
12 m awayRef 2021991043105
Serious
Car crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 October 2004
20 m awayRef 2004950009079
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2017950001609 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.