A man has been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of a police officer hit by a stolen car in Edinburgh. The incident took place at the Shell petrol station on Stenhouse Road at around 7.25pm on Tuesday July 9, when it was first reported there had been a crash involving a car and a pedestrian.
Police have now confirmed the pedestrian was a 32-year-old male officer on foot when he was injured in an incident involving a stolen Mercedes GLE.
He was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh with serious, but not life-threatening injuries, and has since been discharged.
The vehicle had been reported stolen from Gorgie Road at around 7.05pm. A 16-year-old boy was a passenger within the vehicle at the time of the theft and managed to exit it a short time later.
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