A7 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 8 February 2003 at 16:05 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:05 on Saturday 8 February 2003. A 49-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 8 Feb 2003
- Saturday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9493, longitude -3.18719, in the EH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre, City of Edinburgh, EH2 2HG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950001254
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 7
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 2016.
Slight
Peugeot E7 crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 October 2016
At the same spotRef 2016950004955
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 December 1984
At the same spotRef 198495D84A027
Slight
Dennis crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 20 January 2006
At the same spotRef 2006950000544
Slight
Leyland crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 January 1997
At the same spotRef 1997950079997
Serious
Bus crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 January 2006
At the same spotRef 2006950000755
Slight
Dennis crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 September 2001
At the same spotRef 2001950008091
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 49, hit by vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2003950001254 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 2003.