C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH7 on 3 June 1997 at 15:45 involving a Leyland bus
A Leyland bus crashed on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 15:45 on Tuesday 3 June 1997. A 12-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
- 3 Jun 1997
- Tuesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95715, longitude -3.17027, in the EH7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997950568497
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 1998.
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Serious
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, 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 1997950568497 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 1997.