A904 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 11 June 2018 at 00:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A904 in the City of Edinburgh at 00:05 on Monday 11 June 2018. The 22-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and a 21-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jun 2018
- Monday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.98377, longitude -3.40749, in the EH30 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Almond, City of Edinburgh, EH30 9LZ 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
- 2018950000739
- 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
- 904
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2003.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 29 November 2003
At the same spotRef 2003950009954
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 25 July 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950006574
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 3 August 2015
10 m awayRef 2015950003674
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 10 September 2010
14 m awayRef 2010950006573
Serious
Land Rover 90 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 25 August 2007
14 m awayRef 2007950007393
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A904 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 October 2020
15 m awayRef 2020990986039
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018950000739 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.