Fatal Accident Maybury Road

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I wrote off my FTO GR in Nov 2003 by hitting an unlit traffic island in the pouring rain at night on the Maybury Road in Edinburgh. I was unaware it was there as it was new for the new flats they were building there.

It is just after you come from Queensferry road and join the Maybury road at the Barnton roundabout - it's 2 lanes (and always had been - I grew up in Cramond and knew the road well) but this island brings it down to 1 lane then back up to 2 again....madness!

I complained to the council and pretty much got short shrift and was told it was my own fault...I lost my FTO to that event

I just got a letter today from a solicitor who is acting on behalf of the daughter of a man who died in 2005 by hitting the SAME island and it was also still unlit. Since then there has been another fatality so they are collecting evidence against the council.

That's 2 deaths 2 years after my crash and still the island was unlit!!

I just wondered if any of you have noticed that island at all as I am sure I have passed it recently and it was still not lit.

The investigators said they had got my address from the police who had a record of my crash and also others who had hit it or complained about it.

Also - while I was waiting on the police to arrive at the scene of my accident, 2 more cars hit the island!!

It's going to court in March and I'm hoping they give them hell as it's a travesty that some budget concern has ended up with 2 people dead.

FYI the islands are lit from a light UNDER the island - i.e below ground level - so hitting it would take the bollards down but the light below would still be lit - ideally if any of you know the facts about these bollards I'd be interested to know.