C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH3 on 18 June 1987 at 16:05 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 16:05 on Thursday 18 June 1987. An 89-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
- 18 Jun 1987
- Thursday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94426, longitude -3.20239, in the EH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198795687C054
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2000.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 3 March 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950002160
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 29 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198895D88C066
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 10 October 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950009107
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 12 August 1998
10 m awayRef 1998950777898
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 6 November 2000
10 m awayRef 2000950010061
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 April 2003
10 m awayRef 2003950002881
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 89, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 198795687C054 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 1987.