High winds send trees across Edinburgh tumbling onto cars

A number of trees have come crashing down in high winds across the capital today.
By Conor Marlborough
Published 22nd May 2020, 18:03 BST
Updated 22nd May 2020, 18:03 BST

In one incident, a falling tree crushed a moving taxi on a road in the Davidson’s Main suburb of the city.

The black Mercedes people carrier was stopped in its tracks on Cramond Road South near the roundabout with Main Street.

Luckily the driver managed to escape unscathed.

A number of trees have come crashing down in high winds across the capital today.A number of trees have come crashing down in high winds across the capital today.
A number of trees have come crashing down in high winds across the capital today.
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One witness, describing the scene, said she “felt sick” after hearing a “really loud bang” as the tree crashed to the ground outside the Costa Coffee outlet near the roundabout.

“People in the queue ran to help,” she said, but the driver “got out and seemed fine”.

“It could have been so much worse,” she added.

Another falling tree landed among parked cars in Morningside Drive in Edinburgh’s Southside this afternoon, trapping a silver Mercedes.

Damage to the vehicle in not yet clear, but it appears that the trunk of the horse chestnut tree landed in between it and a claret-coloured Ford hatchback.

In a third incident, a downed tree blocked Old Dalkeith Road near Liberton Golf Club, but did not hit any cars.

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