A71 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 25 January 1986 at 14:35 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh at 14:35 on Saturday 25 January 1986. An 18-year-old male pedestrian and a 56-year-old female passenger were 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
- 25 Jan 1986
- Saturday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93841, longitude -3.23022, in the EH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198695186C032
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 71
- 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 8 February 1989.
Slight
Bus crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198995289C007
Slight
Volvo crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 March 2022
2 m awayRef 2022991153627
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 March 2002
10 m awayRef 2002950002792
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 May 1987
10 m awayRef 198795587C057
Serious
Mazda 2 crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 November 2019
12 m awayRef 2019950903127
Serious
MAN crash on the A71 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 July 2007
14 m awayRef 2007950006438
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 56, 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 198695186C032 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 1986.