{"id":375204,"date":"2025-08-26T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375204\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:57:11","slug":"man-76-dies-in-hospital-five-days-after-being-hit-by-car-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375204\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 76, dies in hospital five days after being hit by car in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An elderly man has died in hospital five days after being hit by a car in Edinburgh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 76-year-old man was on Dalkeith Road at the junction with East Mayfield on August 21 when he was hit by a Volkswagen Tiguan.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh where he died on Tuesday. The driver of the car did not require hospital treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Police closed the road for around five hours while investigations were carried out and have now appealed for anyone who witnessed the crash to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Louise Birrell said: \u201cOur thoughts are with the family and friends of the man who has died at this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnquiries are ongoing and we are appealing to anyone who witnessed the crash to contact us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also ask anyone driving in the area at the time with dash-cam footage to come forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Police Scotland on<strong> 101<\/strong> quoting incident 1837 of Thursday, August 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly man has died in hospital five days after being hit by a car in Edinburgh. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-375204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115095656739527427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375204","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=375204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}