A8 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 15 June 2007 at 14:49 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh at 14:49 on Friday 15 June 2007. A 65-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jun 2007
- Friday, 14:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94577, longitude -3.23528, in the EH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sighthill/Gorgie, City of Edinburgh, EH11 2FD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950005161
- 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
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2009.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 May 2009
At the same spotRef 2009950003492
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 September 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950008159
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 November 2016
At the same spotRef 2016950005173
Slight
Car crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198795487C049
Slight
Lorry crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 March 1979
At the same spotRef 197995379C048
Serious
Volvo crash on the A8 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 January 2024
3 m awayRef 2024991403109
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
- 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 2007950005161 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 2007.