Serious B701 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 2 November 2013 at 13:20 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh at 13:20 on Saturday 2 November 2013. An 83-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Nov 2013
- Saturday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94356, longitude -3.29365, 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 7TX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013950005940
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 701
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 1995.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 June 1995
At the same spotRef 1995950610195
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198495284C037
Slight
Car crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 June 1985
10 m awayRef 198595685C074
Slight
Opel Manta crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 March 1996
10 m awayRef 1996950291696
Slight
Renault crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 September 2015
10 m awayRef 2015950004120
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A720 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 March 1981
10 m awayRef 198195381C059
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 83, 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 2013950005940 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 2013.