Two people have died and four children are in hospital after a horror head-on collision on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Emergency services scrambled to the A71 near East Calder, after the alarm was raised at around 1pm on Wednesday, August 3. Officers had received a report of a head on collision between a black Audi A6 and a black Mercedes GLC on the road.
Ambulance crews attended but the occupants of the Audi, an 80-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman, were pronounced dead at the scene. Their family has been informed. The occupants of the Mercedes car - a 29-year-old female driver and four children aged 3, 9, 10 and 14 - were rushed to hospital.
