{"id":419117,"date":"2025-09-12T18:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419117\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:38:14","slug":"rush-hour-ambulance-crash-closes-major-edinburgh-city-centre-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419117\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush hour ambulance crash closes major Edinburgh city centre road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757510351_36_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-86c96223-0 iMuqLZ hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/982b4390-8fff-11f0-86c4-a304e538bef3.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"BBC A badly damaged ambulance after colliding with a traffic pole on an island in the middle of a main road. The pole is bent and sticking out in front of the ambulance. There is gridlocked traffic in the background as well as another ambulance and a police car\" class=\"sc-86c96223-0 fHZDyi\"\/>BBC<\/p>\n<p>Police said the incident happened on Lothian Road, at its junction with West Approach Road, in Edinburgh city centre<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">An ambulance has been involved in a crash which closed a major road in Edinburgh city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Police Scotland said the incident happened on Lothian Road, at its junction with West Approach Road, at about 17:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A photograph from the scene shows a badly damaged ambulance after it almost toppled a pole on an island separating four lanes of traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Police said that a short time later, a two-vehicle crash was reported on Shandwick Place at the junction with Princes Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Emergency services are in attendance and drivers have been asked to avoid the areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Police said the incident happened on Lothian Road, at its junction with West Approach Road, in Edinburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-419117","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\/115192785059173675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419117","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=419117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}