{"id":399065,"date":"2025-09-05T04:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399065\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T04:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:41:23","slug":"police-appeal-for-information-following-fatal-road-crash-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399065\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for information following fatal road crash in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 50-YEAR-OLD man has been killed in a horrifying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadlinenews.co.uk\/tag\/car-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">car crash<\/a> on Cramond Road South, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silverknowes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silverknowes<\/a> area of Edinburgh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadlinenews.co.uk\/tag\/police-scotland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police<\/a> and emergency services were called to the scene at 10:05pm last night after receiving a report that a Vauxhall Corsa hatchback had crashed on Cramond Road South.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the efforts of emergency services, the 50-year-old was pronounced dead on the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only one car was involved in the incident, and it appears that no one else was injured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deadlinenews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CAR_CRASH_CRAMOND_DN01.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"919488\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #919488;\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CAR_CRASH_CRAMOND_DN01.jpg\" alt=\"Cramond Road South, where the accident took place. (C) Google\" class=\"wp-image-1249002 not-transparent\"  \/><\/a>Cramond Road South, where the accident took place. (C) Google<\/p>\n<p>Police say that enquiries into the crash are ongoing and have urged eyewitnesses and anyone with information about the incident to come forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police are also specifically appealing for anyone with dashcam or personal footage to contact them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Paul Ewing said:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts are with the family and friends of the man who has died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs our enquiries continue, I would appeal to anyone who witnessed this crash to contact us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I would also urge anyone who was in the area who has dash-cam or personal footage to please review it and get touch if it holds anything which may be relevant.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear as of yet what the specific circumstances of the crash were.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash took place on the quiet, leafy lane of Cramond Road South, sandwiched in between Silverknowes and Cramond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Police Scotland Statement said:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoad Policing officers are appealing for information following a fatal crash in Edinburgh on Wednesday, 3 September, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround 10.05pm, officers received a report that a Vauxhall Corsa had crashed on Crammond Road South.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmergency services attended, however, the 50-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone with information should contact Police Scotland on 101 quoting incident number 3584 of Wednesday, 3 September, 2025.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 50-YEAR-OLD man has been killed in a horrifying car crash on Cramond Road South, in the Silverknowes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,88524,55866,137690,1102,137691,137692,4884,712,137693,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-399065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-car-accident","10":"tag-car-crash","11":"tag-cramond","12":"tag-edinburgh","13":"tag-edinburgh-car-crash","14":"tag-fatal-car-crash","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-silverknowes","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399065","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=399065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}