Serious A7 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 20 June 1986 at 22:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh at 22:30 on Friday 20 June 1986. A 75-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Jun 1986
- Friday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94221, longitude -3.18231, in the EH8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198695686A030
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 7
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 16 January 2004.
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 January 2004
At the same spotRef 2004950000474
Fatal
Bus crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 February 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950179899
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 May 1996
At the same spotRef 1996950498696
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 November 1979
At the same spotRef 197995N79A022
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 August 1989
At the same spotRef 198995889A005
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 March 2016
10 m awayRef 2016950001889
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 75, 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 198695686A030 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.