B901 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 28 April 2014 at 10:12 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the B901 in the City of Edinburgh at 10:12 on Monday 28 April 2014. A 72-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Apr 2014
- Monday, 10:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95729, longitude -3.18823, in the EH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leith Walk, City of Edinburgh, EH7 5JR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950002298
- 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
- 901
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 2014.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B901 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 August 2014
10 m awayRef 2014950004658
Slight
Car crash on the B901 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 October 1980
10 m awayRef 198095O80B043
Slight
Leyland crash on the B901 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 February 1996
10 m awayRef 1996950136496
Serious
Car crash on the B901 in the City of Edinburgh, 17 December 1983
10 m awayRef 198395D83B015
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B901 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 September 2011
10 m awayRef 2011950006025
Slight
Car crash on the B901 in the City of Edinburgh, 11 October 2005
10 m awayRef 2005950008891
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 2014950002298 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 2014.