A720 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 22 March 2025 at 12:50 involving a Citroen Dispatch van
A Citroen Dispatch van, a Nissan Juke and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh at 12:50 on Saturday 22 March 2025. A 73-year-old male passenger in the Nissan Juke was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 2025
- Saturday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen Dispatch and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91961, longitude -3.30452, in the EH11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pentland Hills, City of Edinburgh, EH14 4AJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025991568194
- 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
- 720
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2018.
Slight
MAN crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 July 2018
3 m awayRef 2018950000980
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 November 2018
22 m awayRef 2018950001506
Slight
Ford Ecosport crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 December 2019
22 m awayRef 2019950913148
Slight
Van crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 October 1989
33 m awayRef 198995O89C049
Slight
Audi 100 crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 May 1991
34 m awayRef 1991950514991
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 October 2000
37 m awayRef 2000950009388
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Dispatch
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Nissan Juke
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 3: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,950 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Juke)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025991568194 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 2025.