A 92-year-old man was left bedbound with a broken hand and a bruised face after he fell over bollards marking out an extended pavement in Edinburgh.
James Bridges tumbled over the raised road marker, introduced under the Spaces for People scheme during the coronavirus pandemic, in Corstorphine High Street on April 3. He had been crossing the road to look at bus times on the opposite side of the street.
Speaking to Edinburgh Live, his daughter Anne Azak says the "fiercely independent" man has been rendered a shadow of his former self by the incident. She has hit out at Edinburgh City Council arguing that the so-called safety measures, designed to artificially extend the pavement, are anything but safe.
