Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH26 on 4 October 2007 at 15:05 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 15:05 on Thursday 4 October 2007. An 84-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
- 4 Oct 2007
- Thursday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82943, longitude -3.2335, in the EH26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Penicuik.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950008320
- Council area
- Midlothian
- 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 January 1983.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 26 January 1983
10 m awayRef 198395183E026
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 3 September 1982
10 m awayRef 198295982E002
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 20 February 1979
40 m awayRef 197995279E023
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 8 January 1984
71 m awayRef 198495184E018
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 19 September 2001
86 m awayRef 2001950008209
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 4 September 1991
86 m awayRef 1991950989291
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 84, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- 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 2007950008320 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Midlothian road accident statistics for 2007.