A93 crash in Aberdeen City on 25 October 1989 at 16:20 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A93 in Aberdeen City at 16:20 on Wednesday 25 October 1989. An 80-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 1989
- Wednesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.10606, longitude -2.22614, in the AB13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeen City
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989928907253
- Council area
- Aberdeen City
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 93
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City, 7 August 1981
At the same spotRef 1981928104648
Slight
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City, 31 December 1980
At the same spotRef 1980928008629
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City, 21 February 1980
At the same spotRef 1980928001149
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City, 20 January 1989
100 m awayRef 1989928900393
Slight
Van crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City, 6 November 1988
100 m awayRef 1988928806966
Slight
Car crash on the A93 in Aberdeen City, 25 September 1997
100 m awayRef 1997929704160
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 80, 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 1989928907253 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Aberdeen City road accident statistics for 1989.