{"id":131782,"date":"2025-05-25T22:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T22:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131782\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T22:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T22:49:15","slug":"edinburgh-police-catch-driver-recklessly-playing-solitaire-behind-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131782\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh police catch driver ‘recklessly playing solitaire’ behind the wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police <\/a>in Edinburgh have charged a driver after they were found ‘recklessly playing solitaire’ while behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

Officers were patrolling the Leith, Portobello <\/a>and Craigmillar neighbourhoods with a focus on road safety through the week. They detected ten mobile phone offences, and several other drivers <\/a>were warned over minor offences.<\/p>\n

Two vehicles were also seized after they were found to have no insurance.<\/p>\n

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Police Scotland Edinburgh said: “Ten mobile phone offences were detected, and drivers were charged, including one driver who was recklessly found playing ‘solitaire’ while driving.<\/p>\n

“Several other drivers were warned about minor road traffic offences. Two vehicles were seized, having been found with no insurance.<\/p>\n

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“Whilst on patrol NEST officers were first on scene to an injured person who had fallen. The officers used their first aid skills to assess and treat the casualty before the ambulance service took over care.”<\/p>\n

One local resident said: “Excellent. We need more of this for sure.”<\/p>\n

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Another added: “We need more of this!”<\/p>\n

A third posted: “Great job guys.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Edinburgh have charged a driver after they were found ‘recklessly playing solitaire’ while behind the wheel.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,6499,1102,4884,58075,58074,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-131782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-driver","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-minor-offences","13":"tag-road-traffic-offences","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114570917744836152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131782","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=131782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}