A702 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 21 June 2019 at 09:15 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh at 09:15 on Friday 21 June 2019. A 72-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 2019
- Friday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94201, longitude -3.20344, in the EH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre, City of Edinburgh, EH3 8BZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019950000736
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 702
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 701
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 4 December 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 December 1981
1 m awayRef 198195D81C011
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 November 1979
1 m awayRef 197995N79C071
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 7 May 1988
1 m awayRef 198895588C014
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 8 April 1992
1 m awayRef 1992950405592
Slight
Porsche Cayenne crash on the B701 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 August 2014
1 m awayRef 2014950004552
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 October 1983
1 m awayRef 198395O83C052
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2019950000736 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 2019.