{"id":741463,"date":"2026-02-04T09:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/741463\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:36:09","slug":"edinburgh-police-hunt-hit-and-run-driver-after-murder-bid-outside-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/741463\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh police hunt hit-and-run driver after murder bid outside homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An Edinburgh man is in hospital after a &#8216;hit and run&#8217; murder bid on Tuesday evening. Around 9.50pm on February 3, emergency services rushed to Lochend Drive after reports of a collision involving a pedestrian and a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 36-year-old man was blue-lighted to hospital for treatment. The vehicle failed to stop at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers are treating the incident at &#8216;attempted murder&#8217; and inquiries are ongoing to trace the driver. The area was locked down for a number of hours while investigations were carried out and it is understood police remain in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Police Scotland spokesperson said: \u201cAround 9.50pm on Tuesday, 3 February, 2026, we were called to a report of a collision involving a pedestrian and a vehicle on Lochend Drive in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cEmergency services attended and the pedestrian, a 36-year-old man, was taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe vehicle failed to stop at the scene. Officers are treating the incident as attempted murder and enquiries are ongoing to trace the vehicle and driver.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Edinburgh man is in hospital after a &#8216;hit and run&#8217; murder bid on Tuesday evening. Around 9.50pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[71403,748,1102,133,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-741463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-attempted-murder","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-emergency-services","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116011688850456150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741463","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=741463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}