A man has died following a serious road collision that happened in Edinburgh earlier this week.

Twenty-one-year-old Luke Coles, from Princes Street, Scarborough died in hospital yesterday having been seriously injured in the collision on Old Dalkeith Road on Monday morning.

It happened around 8.05am about 100 metres north of the junction with Newton Church Road, Danderhall.

The road was closed until 11.30am on Monday while investigations were carried out at the scene.

A police spokesman said:- “Inquiries have been ongoing to establish exactly what happened and we have spoken to numerous witnesses who were in the area at the time as a result.

“Anyone else who may have been in the area at the time and saw what happened, and has not spoken to police yet, should contact us on 101.”

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