{"id":515240,"date":"2026-04-06T03:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515240\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T03:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:48:15","slug":"huge-edinburgh-emergency-response-scrambled-to-scene-after-crash-on-major-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515240\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Edinburgh emergency response scrambled to scene after crash on major road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services remain in attendance.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An emergency response remains at the scene\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_IMG_4664.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"An emergency response remains at the scene\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">An emergency response remains at the scene<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A large emergency response is currently at the scene of a crash on a major road. Around 5.40pm, emergency services were spotted on the M8 westbound between J1 Hermiston Gait and J2 Newbridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police, Scottish Fire and Rescue and the Scottish Ambulance Service were all spotted at the scene. It comes after reports of a road traffic collision involving one vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A white car was spotted at the side of the road with officers carrying out investigations. Three SFRS appliances were dispatched to the scene and emergency services remain in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It&#8217;s not yet known if there have been any injuries. A SFRS spokesperson said: &#8220;We are currently in attendance on the M8 westbound. We sent three appliances to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We were made aware around 5.40pm and we remain in attendance.&#8221;<\/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":"Emergency services remain in attendance. An emergency response remains at the scene A large emergency response is currently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,179909,50,7859,179910,179911,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-515240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-m8","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-police-scotland","14":"tag-scottish-ambulance-service","15":"tag-scottish-fire-and-rescue","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}