Serious A7 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 19 March 2019 at 09:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh at 09:25 on Tuesday 19 March 2019. The 30-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Mar 2019
- Tuesday, 09:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91927, longitude -3.13688, in the EH17 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019950000340
- 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
- 7
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 October 2015
4 m awayRef 2015950004441
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 May 2013
6 m awayRef 2013950002655
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 August 1983
11 m awayRef 198395883A046
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 November 2018
11 m awayRef 2018950001609
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 February 2000
16 m awayRef 2000950002083
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 March 2005
17 m awayRef 2005950002021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2019950000340 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 2019.