A70 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 30 December 1991 at 19:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh at 19:30 on Monday 30 December 1991. An 84-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1991
- Monday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94272, longitude -3.22124, in the EH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991950031892
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 70
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 6 October 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 October 1982
At the same spotRef 198295O82C013
Slight
Honda crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 June 1990
At the same spotRef 1990950753290
Slight
Bus crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 April 1991
At the same spotRef 1991950424991
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 March 2007
At the same spotRef 2007950002601
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 July 2006
At the same spotRef 2006950006215
Serious
Volvo crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 September 2024
2 m awayRef 2024991496913
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 84, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 1991950031892 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 1991.