Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH8 on 31 October 2000 at 16:28 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 16:28 on Tuesday 31 October 2000. A 55-year-old female passenger was 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
- 31 Oct 2000
- Tuesday, 16:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95481, longitude -3.14619, in the EH8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950009904
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- 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
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1140
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 2003.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 October 2003
20 m awayRef 2003950008174
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 27 December 1986
20 m awayRef 198695D86D029
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 8 January 2001
20 m awayRef 2001950000209
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 20 November 1986
22 m awayRef 198695N86D024
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 14 September 1990
30 m awayRef 1990951102990
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1140 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 March 1979
30 m awayRef 197995379D010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 55, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 2000950009904 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 2000.