{"id":522376,"date":"2025-10-23T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522376\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:30:12","slug":"hunt-for-driver-who-hit-pedestrian-while-being-pursued-by-police-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522376\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt for driver who hit pedestrian while being pursued by police in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police are hunting for a driver who hit a pedestrian while being pursued by officers in Edinburgh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The blue Vauxhall Corsa failed to stop for officers on Newington Road around 12.55pm on Wednesday and was subsequently pursued.<\/p>\n<p>During the chase, the car struck a pedestrian at the junction of Liberton Road and Gilmerton Road before continuing south on Gilmerton Road.<\/p>\n<p>It was found abandoned a short distance away on Glenallan Drive.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian, a 47-year-old man, was taken to hospital for treatment to serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police are now searching for the driver and have urged any witnesses the come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Grant Hastie said: \u201cOur enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances and trace those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would urge anyone who witnessed the crash, or saw a blue Vauxhall Corsa in the area beforehand or afterwards, to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also keen to speak to anyone with dash-cam or private CCTV footage that may assist our investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Police Scotland on <strong>101<\/strong>, quoting incident number 1486 of October 22, 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\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are hunting for a driver who hit a pedestrian while being pursued by officers in Edinburgh. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-522376","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\/115423964928570163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522376","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=522376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}