A70 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 4 November 2025 at 21:00 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Velar
A Land Rover Range Rover Velar and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh at 21:00 on Tuesday 4 November 2025. The 44-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris and an 84-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Yaris were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2025
- Tuesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Range Rover Velar and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92421, longitude -3.24645, in the EH14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart, City of Edinburgh, EH14 1SS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025991663706
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 January 2009
3 m awayRef 2009950000573
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 2 April 2010
3 m awayRef 2010950002510
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 February 1980
3 m awayRef 198095280C023
Serious
Car crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 30 January 2012
3 m awayRef 2012950000608
Serious
Van crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 December 1983
3 m awayRef 198395D83C012
Serious
Car crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 June 1985
3 m awayRef 198595685C005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover Velar
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2025991663706 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.