A8 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 6 November 2006 at 15:55 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh at 15:55 on Monday 6 November 2006. A 77-year-old female passenger 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
- 6 Nov 2006
- Monday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94188, longitude -3.27342, in the EH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Corstorphine/Murrayfield, City of Edinburgh, EH12 7DJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950009903
- 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
- 8
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 2009.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 August 2009
At the same spotRef 2009950006360
Serious
Taxi crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198995189C051
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 April 2010
At the same spotRef 2010950002702
Serious
Car crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 May 1983
At the same spotRef 198395583C047
Serious
Car crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 June 1983
At the same spotRef 198395683C058
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 April 1979
At the same spotRef 197995479C003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 77, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 2006950009903 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 2006.