Serious unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH13 on 20 September 2003 at 23:00 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 23:00 on Saturday 20 September 2003. A 54-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Sep 2003
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90796, longitude -3.2248, in the EH13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colinton/Fairmilehead, City of Edinburgh, EH13 9NY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950007733
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 15 November 2017.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 15 November 2017
At the same spotRef 2017950002484
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 15 April 1982
10 m awayRef 198295482C026
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 14 May 2017
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Slight
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 22 April 2005
10 m awayRef 2005950003511
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 4 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198595N85C021
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 9 May 2019
18 m awayRef 2019950000558
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
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
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,268 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 54, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- 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 2003950007733 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.