A90 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 14 December 2024 at 18:48 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh at 18:48 on Saturday 14 December 2024. The 71-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2024
- Saturday, 18:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97863, longitude -3.38045, in the EH30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024991530211
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 90
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 67 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 January 1980
67 m awayRef 198095180F031
Slight
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 December 1987, ref 198795D87F023
67 m awayRef 198795D87F023
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 June 1998
73 m awayRef 1998950549098
Slight
Car crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 December 1987, ref 198795D87F022
73 m awayRef 198795D87F022
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 January 1994
80 m awayRef 1994950084194
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 January 2008
89 m awayRef 2008950000324
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2024991530211 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 2024.