{"id":375374,"date":"2025-08-26T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375374\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:31:27","slug":"pedestrian-76-dies-days-after-being-knocked-down-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375374\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian, 76, dies days after being knocked down in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755184337_952_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7867d740-8293-11f0-be97-fd5500e1b5ea.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Google Dalkeith Road has a line of cars and a bus travelling along it at a crossroads.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Google<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Dalkeith Road in Edinburgh<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A pedestrian has died days after being knocked down by a car in an Edinburgh street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The 76-year-old man was knocked down by a black Volkswagen Tiguan on Dalkeith Road at the junction with East Mayfield at 14:10 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He died in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on Tuesday. The driver of the vehicle did not require treatment. The road was closed and reopened at 19:30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Police Scotland are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scotland.police.uk\/contact-us\/\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"noopener\">appealing for witnesses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google The incident happened on Dalkeith Road in Edinburgh A pedestrian has died days after being knocked down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-375374","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\/115096026131103393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375374","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=375374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}