{"id":645289,"date":"2025-12-21T01:17:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645289\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:17:19","slug":"edinburgh-motorists-face-delays-as-city-bypass-restricted-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645289\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh motorists face delays as city bypass restricted after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident took place on the A720 near Baberton at around 8.11pm on Saturday, December 20 and saw the right-hand lane westbound closed off by police.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1_f4ee4f11-5ca3-485d-95fb-b83d1e59fae8jfif.jpg\" alt=\"Significant damage can be seen on one of the cars \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Significant damage can be seen on one of the cars (Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Edinburgh city bypass has been <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/traffic-and-travel\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">restricted <\/a>to one lane following a crash. The incident, which happened on the A720 near Baberton at around 8.11pm on Saturday, December 20 saw the right-hand lane westbound closed off by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A video seen by Edinburgh Live showed <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/traffic-and-travel\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">traffic <\/a>moving slowly in the left-hand lane, as they approach the accident officers can be seen on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A police sign and cones block off the lane where two cars &#8211; one of which shows significant damage to its front bumper while the other vehicle appears to be on a trailer &#8211; are sat stationary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/traffic-and-travel\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Traffic Scotland <\/a>confirmed the accident on their website, they wrote: &#8220;The A720 westbound at Baberton is currently restricted, due to a road traffic collision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The exact nature of the incident is currently not known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police Scotland have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident took place on the A720 near Baberton at around 8.11pm on Saturday, December 20 and saw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,760,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-645289","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-traffic-and-travel","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115754922950593575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645289","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=645289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}