Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH16 on 17 April 2018 at 00:10 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 00:10 on Tuesday 17 April 2018. A 42-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Apr 2018
- Tuesday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91955, longitude -3.13554, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Liberton/Gilmerton, City of Edinburgh, EH17 7RZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018950000517
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 2019.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 18 April 2019
10 m awayRef 2019950000458
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 9 August 2017
20 m awayRef 2017950001849
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 30 November 2009
28 m awayRef 2009950009545
Serious
Nissan Note crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 25 March 2015
42 m awayRef 2015950001286
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 June 2005
63 m awayRef 2005950005623
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 March 2005
81 m awayRef 2005950002021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018950000517 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 2018.