A70 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 29 September 2025 at 16:45 involving a Toyota RAV4
A Toyota RAV4 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:45 on Monday 29 September 2025. The 29-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 2025
- Monday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota RAV4 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93523, longitude -3.23099, in the EH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sighthill/Gorgie, City of Edinburgh, EH11 2FD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025991648137
- 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
- 70
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 February 2025.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 February 2025
2 m awayRef 2025991561852
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 28 November 2012
5 m awayRef 2012950006769
Slight
Honda crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 June 2002
7 m awayRef 2002950005784
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 November 2004
7 m awayRef 2004950009743
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 November 1980
7 m awayRef 198095N80C076
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 July 1987
7 m awayRef 198795787C011
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,487 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Cycle lane (on main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 29, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025991648137 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.