A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 21 March 1985 at 14:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 14:30 on Thursday 21 March 1985. A 72-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 1985
- Thursday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93008, longitude -3.20963, in the EH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198595385A013
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 702
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 1993.
Slight
Leyland crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 February 1993
At the same spotRef 1993950215493
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 September 1997
At the same spotRef 1997950949797
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198595885A043
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 February 1990
At the same spotRef 1990950260590
Slight
Dodge crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 March 1993
At the same spotRef 1993950327793
Slight
Leyland crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 August 1993
10 m awayRef 1993950817893
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 198595385A013 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 1985.