A199 crash in East Lothian on 25 August 1990 at 14:00 involving a Seddon/Atkinson bus
A Seddon/Atkinson bus and a car were involved in a crash on the A199 in East Lothian at 14:00 on Saturday 25 August 1990. A 70-year-old female passenger in the Seddon/Atkinson bus was 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 Aug 1990
- Saturday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seddon/Atkinson and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94395, longitude -3.05988, in the EH21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Musselburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990951014990
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 199
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 13 October 2018
5 m awayRef 2018950001398
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 18 March 2016
8 m awayRef 2016950001630
Slight
Bus crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 13 May 1982
10 m awayRef 198295582E017
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 4 December 1983
10 m awayRef 198395D83E036
Slight
Car crash on the A199 in East Lothian, 6 June 1988
10 m awayRef 198895688E008
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 27 July 1979
14 m awayRef 197995779E048
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seddon/Atkinson
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seddon/Atkinson)
- 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 1990951014990 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Lothian road accident statistics for 1990.