Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH22 on 6 July 2000 at 11:05 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 11:05 on Thursday 6 July 2000. A 58-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
- 6 Jul 2000
- Thursday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87692, longitude -3.05375, in the EH22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gorebridge and Mayfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950006242
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 January 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the B6455 in Midlothian, 6 January 1983
41 m awayRef 198395183E005
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 25 September 1989
41 m awayRef 198995989E037
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 14 September 1986
41 m awayRef 198695986E030
Slight
Car crash on the B6455 in Midlothian, 16 December 1987
171 m awayRef 198795D87E019
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 4 August 2016
195 m awayRef 2016950003753
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 29 August 1983
210 m awayRef 198395883E029
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, 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 2000950006242 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Midlothian road accident statistics for 2000.