A68 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 23 February 1984 at 08:25 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh at 08:25 on Thursday 23 February 1984. A 9-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 1984
- Thursday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92823, longitude -3.15916, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198495284A022
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 68
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 1989.
Slight
Bus crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 20 June 1989
14 m awayRef 198995689A019
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 September 1989
14 m awayRef 198995989D041
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 July 2000
14 m awayRef 2000950006699
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 December 1982
22 m awayRef 198295D82A040
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 September 1984
22 m awayRef 198495984A019
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 December 1997
36 m awayRef 1997951306997
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 198495284A022 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 1984.