B6415 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 28 September 2008 at 15:10 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the B6415 in the City of Edinburgh at 15:10 on Sunday 28 September 2008. A 62-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
- 28 Sep 2008
- Sunday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94889, longitude -3.09606, in the EH15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Portobello/Craigmillar, City of Edinburgh, EH15 2LL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950007869
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6415
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 2013.
Slight
Kia Venga crash on the B6415 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 April 2013
10 m awayRef 2013950002215
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on the B6415 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 July 1990
20 m awayRef 1990950868590
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B6415 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 August 2015
20 m awayRef 2015950003838
Slight
Car crash on the B6415 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 April 1988
20 m awayRef 198895488D015
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B6415 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 August 1994
22 m awayRef 1994950923194
Fatal
Leyland crash on the B6415 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 March 1991
22 m awayRef 1991950324491
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 62, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- 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 2008950007869 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 2008.