C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH8 on 20 November 2017 at 12:30 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Yamaha MT125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 12:30 on Monday 20 November 2017. The 45-year-old male rider of the Yamaha MT125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2017
- Monday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Yamaha MT125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95496, longitude -3.17293, in the EH8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leith Walk, City of Edinburgh, EH7 5JR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the City of Edinburgh
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017950002443
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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
- 26%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 74%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2017.
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 18 May 2017
At the same spotRef 2017950001359
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 18 November 1994
At the same spotRef 1994951243794
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 5 February 1998
At the same spotRef 1998950131398
Slight
Hyundai Terracan crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 May 2011
At the same spotRef 2011950003033
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 18 August 1980
At the same spotRef 198095880D014
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 18 August 1980
At the same spotRef 198095880D015
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Yamaha MT125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha MT125)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017950002443 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.