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Steven Brown

Edinburgh woman rushed to hospital after 'falling out of a taxi backwards'

An Edinburgh woman has been rushed to hospital after falling out of a taxi in front of the Playhouse theatre.

The incident happened on Greenside Place at the top of Leith Walk on Saturday, May 13 at 10.15pm. Shocked witnesses said the woman, believed to be around 60 years-old suffered a head injury in the fall.

Concerned passers-by phoned the Scottish Ambulance Service and paramedics were dispatched to the scene. She was then taken to the Royal Infirmary.

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