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Serious A90 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 22 December 2016 at 13:00 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach crashed on the A90 in the City of Edinburgh at 13:00 on Thursday 22 December 2016. An 81-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
22 Dec 2016
Thursday, 13:00
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9557, longitude -3.2404, in the EH4 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, EH4 3NB area accident hotspot.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2016950005977
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
90
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
Raining with 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 6 June 1998.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    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
    42 years
    Driver home area deprivation
    30 to 40% least deprived

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 81, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Standing passenger
    Home area deprivation
    10 to 20% least deprived

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 2016950005977 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 2016.