The driver of a Toyota car has been taken to hospital following a collision with a bin lorry at West Port, near the Grassmarket area around 6.40am this morning.
The occupants of the bin lorry were not injured.
West Port was blocked eastbound with officers directing traffic until the vehicles were cleared.
A police spokesman said road was fully reopened shortly before 8.30am.
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
