A901 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 7 August 2005 at 17:08 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh at 17:08 on Sunday 7 August 2005. A 64-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2005
- Sunday, 17:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97535, longitude -3.17901, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in the City of Edinburgh
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950006794
- 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
- 901
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 1992.
Slight
Datsun Bluebird crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 July 1992
At the same spotRef 1992950799892
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 May 2011
At the same spotRef 2011950002886
Slight
Leyland crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 20 March 1997
At the same spotRef 1997950312097
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 December 1998
At the same spotRef 1998951307998
Slight
Citroen DS4 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 12 June 2016
At the same spotRef 2016950002863
Serious
Leyland crash on the A901 in the City of Edinburgh, 18 March 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950002605
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 64, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- 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 2005950006794 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 2005.