{"id":123124,"date":"2025-05-22T17:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123124\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:47:13","slug":"edinburgh-tram-and-lorry-involved-in-collision-on-busy-commuter-road-sparking-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123124\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh tram and ‘lorry’ involved in collision on busy commuter road sparking delays"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Edinburgh commuter has claimed a tram<\/a> glass door was smashed in a collision involving a ‘lorry.<\/a>‘<\/p>\n

Edinburgh trams have taken to social media to alert travellers to the incident which will see services terminate at Balfour Street from Edinburgh Airport.<\/p>\n

An eye witness alleged the lorry was turning from Dalmeny Street when the back end of the vehicle hit the tram and smashed the glass.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/b> West Lothian police and paramedics scrambled to ‘incident’ at busy junction<\/a><\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/b> Edinburgh emergency services on scene of ‘incident’ at busy retail car park<\/a><\/p>\n

They added glass shattered everywhere and passengers on board the tram were asked to disembark.<\/p>\n

An image shared with Edinburgh Live appeared to show a part of the tram’s outer casing sticking in between the smashed doors.<\/p>\n

Edinburgh trams have advised customers there is a ticket sharing agreement in place with Lothian Buses for those impacted.<\/p>\n

The collision is understood to have taken place at around 5pm on Thursday May 22.<\/p>\n

Join<\/b> Edinburgh Live’s Whatsapp Community here <\/b> <\/a> and get the latest news sent<\/b> straight to your messages.<\/b><\/p>\n

In a statement on X, Edinburgh trams said: “Due to tram incident at Balfour Street, we are currently running part route between Edinburgh Airport and Balfour Street.<\/p>\n

“Customers travelling to Foot of the Walk, Shore, Port of Leith, Ocean Terminal and Newhaven. Ticket acceptance is in place with Lothian Buses.”<\/p>\n

Sign up for<\/b> Edinburgh Live newsletters <\/b> <\/a> for more headlines straight to your inbox<\/b> <\/b><\/p>\n

Police Scotland have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Edinburgh commuter has claimed a tram glass door was smashed in a collision involving a ‘lorry.‘ Edinburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[54753,748,1102,11500,13570,4884,29072,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-123124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-balfour-street","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-airport","12":"tag-edinburgh-trams","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-lothian-buses","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114552743141896101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}