Police Scotland has announced that a 28-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a fatal crash on Whitehouse Road in Edinburgh involving a bin lorry and a schoolboy. 

The incident happened around 8.20am on Friday, 1 March, near to the junction with Braehead Road.  

Thomas Wong, 11, was pronounced dead at the scene. 

Officers said that their enquiries to establish the full circumstances are continuing. 

John Hislop

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.

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