A900 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 27 December 2001 at 15:20 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh at 15:20 on Thursday 27 December 2001. An 83-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
- 27 Dec 2001
- Thursday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.96531, longitude -3.1763, in the EH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leith, City of Edinburgh, EH6 5HB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001950011809
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 900
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 6 February 2016.
Serious
MAN crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 February 2016
At the same spotRef 2016950000903
Slight
Car crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 January 1987
At the same spotRef 198795187D008
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 April 1996
At the same spotRef 1996950376996
Serious
Leyland crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 June 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950005726
Slight
Bus crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 July 2012
At the same spotRef 2012950004106
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 22 May 2025
6 m awayRef 2025991593887
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 83, 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 2001950011809 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 2001.