Edinburgh’s 20mph speed limit has reduced collisions by 40% and casualties by 39%, including a 23% reduction in fatalities and a 33% drop in serious injuries.
These are the startling findings by academics from Edinburgh, East Anglia, and Cambridge Universities writing in the journal Public Health Research.
Police issued the following press release this morning. We reproduce it unedited and in full.
Police are appealing for information after a 58-year-old male cyclist was knocked from his bike by a vehicle that failed to stop on Mansfield Place, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, 4 August, 2021.
The incident happened about 7.30 am. The cyclist was taken by ambulance to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh where he remains for treatment. His injuries, at this time, do not appear serious.
Constable Alexander Marshall, Edinburgh Road Policing Unit, said:
This was the narrow Logie Green Road exit of Tesco this morning.
Fortunately, no one was hurt, but police are in attendance.
Sources close to the accident say the collision happened at about 11am, when a red Toyota Prius drove into the back of a stationary delivery lorry.
It is now partially wedged underneath, and recovery specialists are working out how to disentangle them.
Customers are being directed out of the car park onto Broughton Road.