A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 17 June 1993 at 10:30 involving a Leyland bus
A Leyland bus crashed on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 10:30 on Thursday 17 June 1993. A 3-year-old female passenger 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
- 17 Jun 1993
- Thursday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94952, longitude -3.20672, in the EH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993950645993
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 702
- 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 26 September 1998.
Slight
Leyland crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 September 1998
At the same spotRef 1998950943798
Slight
Leyland crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 August 1997
At the same spotRef 1997950842397
Slight
Volvo crash on the A700 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 February 2024
1 m awayRef 2024991413721
Serious
Volvo crash on the A700 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 February 2020
2 m awayRef 2020990934768
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 March 1986
10 m awayRef 198695386C040
Slight
Volvo crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 January 2015
10 m awayRef 2015950000047
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 10,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 3, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 1993950645993 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 1993.