A8 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 14 March 1991 at 15:45 involving a Leyland bus
A Leyland bus hit a pedestrian on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh at 15:45 on Thursday 14 March 1991. A 79-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 14 Mar 1991
- Thursday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94967, longitude -3.20912, in the EH2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991950303891
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 8
- 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 8 March 2001.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 March 2001
At the same spotRef 2001950002323
Slight
Taxi crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198595985C015
Slight
Bus crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 February 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950154299
Serious
Bus crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 December 1979
At the same spotRef 197995D79C014
Slight
Volvo crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 September 2024
3 m awayRef 2024991501719
Serious
Car crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 20 January 1983
10 m awayRef 198395183C042
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 79, hit by vehicle 1 (Leyland)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1991950303891 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.