A901 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 16 November 1987 at 16:34 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a car were involved in a crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:34 on Monday 16 November 1987. A 71-year-old female passenger in the bus or coach was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 1987
- Monday, 16:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97158, longitude -3.17343, in the EH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198795N87D014
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 901
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 15 January 1993.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 January 1993
At the same spotRef 1993950057993
Slight
Bus crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 1 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198995289D006
Slight
Bus crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 July 1979
At the same spotRef 197995779D035
Slight
Dennis crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 July 2013
At the same spotRef 2013950003969
Serious
Bus crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 January 1991
At the same spotRef 1991950044691
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 31 December 2019
9 m awayRef 2019950914643
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, 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 198795N87D014 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.