B701 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 14 March 1985 at 17:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh at 17:30 on Thursday 14 March 1985. A 61-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
- 14 Mar 1985
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90656, longitude -3.22586, in the EH13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198595385C033
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 701
- 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
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 1986.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 61, 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 198595385C033 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.