Fatal unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH7 on 6 May 2022 at 22:50 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 22:50 on Friday 6 May 2022. A 62-year-old female pedestrian was killed.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 6 May 2022
- Friday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9573, longitude -3.16176, in the EH7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Craigentinny/Duddingston, City of Edinburgh, EH7 6FJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022991173761
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 28 May 1981
3 m awayRef 198195581D017
Serious
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 8 July 1982
8 m awayRef 198295782D009
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 September 1997
8 m awayRef 1997950931097
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 1 June 1982
12 m awayRef 198295682D001
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 January 2001
12 m awayRef 2001950000077
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 25 March 1995
12 m awayRef 1995950333695
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalFemale, aged 62, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2022991173761 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 2022.