Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH16 on 4 August 1997 at 17:05 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 17:05 on Monday 4 August 1997. A 25-year-old female passenger and a 3-year-old female passenger were 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
- 4 Aug 1997
- Monday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93358, longitude -3.16332, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997950797197
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 11 January 1997.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 11 January 1997
10 m awayRef 1997950033297
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 11 October 2002
10 m awayRef 2002950009077
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 9 September 1989
10 m awayRef 198995989B014
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 27 May 2010
14 m awayRef 2010950003808
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 13 May 2015
28 m awayRef 2015950002304
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 2 March 2019
29 m awayRef 2019950000268
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 3, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- 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 1997950797197 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.