C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH12 on 3 April 1995 at 17:00 involving a Leyland bus
A Leyland bus crashed on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 17:00 on Monday 3 April 1995. A 69-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 1995
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94056, longitude -3.28409, in the EH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995950357895
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1985.
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 19 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198595D85C033
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 February 2012
14 m awayRef 2012950000799
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 1 December 1991
14 m awayRef 1991951389491
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 14 June 1989
14 m awayRef 198995689C057
Slight
Mazda 5 crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 30 November 2014
14 m awayRef 2014950006133
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 15 August 1982
20 m awayRef 198295882C009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 69, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Leyland)
- 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 1995950357895 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 1995.