{"id":215770,"date":"2025-06-26T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215770\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:40:10","slug":"edinburgh-schoolboy-cyclist-12-knocked-down-in-crash-with-car-on-busy-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215770\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh schoolboy cyclist, 12, &#8216;knocked down&#8217; in crash with car on busy road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A boy was knocked off his bike in a crash with car on a busy Edinburgh road as emergency services rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police and medics responded to the crash involving a car and a 12-year-old boy riding a bike on Glasgow Road at around 5.20pm on Wednesday, June 25.<\/p>\n<p>An eye witness reported seeing an upset child at the side of the road with three police motorbikes, a police van and ambulance at the scene as they drove past.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/edinburgh-emergency-services-rush-scene-062426313.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh emergency services rush to scene of incident on major road;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh emergency services rush to scene of incident on major road<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/fit-healthy-edinburgh-dad-given-202511830.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:&#039;Fit and healthy&#039; Edinburgh dad given &#039;aggressive&#039; diagnosis after doctor neighbour noticed signs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Fit and healthy&#8217; Edinburgh dad given &#8216;aggressive&#8217; diagnosis after doctor neighbour noticed signs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They said: &#8220;On Glasgow Road at the traffic lights outside a car showroom it looks like a young boy has been struck by by a large car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three police motorcycles, a police van and ambulance are at the scene. The boy looked around ten and crying although no one seemed to be badly injured as they were all standing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed there were no reports of serious injuries and the driver was issued a conditional offer in connection with a road traffic offence.<\/p>\n<p>A Police Scotland spokesperson said: \u201cAround 5.20pm on Wednesday, 25 June, 2025, we were called to a report of a crash involving a car and a 12-year-old boy who was riding a bike in the Glasgow Road area of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmergency services attended and there were no reports of any serious injuries. The driver of the car was issued with a conditional offer in connection with a road traffic offence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Join<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DBFongo3zQS6P8RfPA1ryO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh Live&#039;s Whatsapp Community here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">  <b> Edinburgh Live&#8217;s Whatsapp Community here <\/b> <\/a> <b>and get the latest news sent<\/b> <b>straight to your messages.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boy was knocked off his bike in a crash with car on a busy Edinburgh road as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,28978,29073,1102,72538,21573,4884,66053,85731,712,30229,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-215770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-car","10":"tag-crash-involving","11":"tag-edinburgh","12":"tag-edinburgh-road","13":"tag-glasgow-road","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-police-van","16":"tag-riding-a-bike","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-traffic-lights","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114749480888684963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215770","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=215770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}