A70 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 24 November 1993 at 12:05 involving a Leyland bus
A car and a Leyland bus were involved in a crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh at 12:05 on Wednesday 24 November 1993. A 53-year-old male passenger in the Leyland bus and a 66-year-old female passenger in the Leyland bus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 1993
- Wednesday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Leyland
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90798, longitude -3.27197, in the EH13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993951291793
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 701
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 3 December 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 December 2001
At the same spotRef 2001950011055
Slight
Bus crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198695786C004
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 September 1996
At the same spotRef 1996950969496
Slight
Bus crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 October 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950009669
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 February 1995
At the same spotRef 1995950126795
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 January 2025
7 m awayRef 2025991542301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Leyland
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 53, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Leyland)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 66, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1993951291793 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.