Crash victim is laid to rest

THE funeral of a woman killed in a car crash earlier this week will take place on Wednesday.

Susanne Lumsden, 38, from the city’s Hyvot Grove, died when her Vauxhall Astra hit a wall in Gilmerton Road at 6pm on Monday. Firefighters freed her from the car, which had ploughed through a garden wall into the driveway of a property, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her funeral will take place at Mortonhall Crematorium Main Chapel on March 21 at 11am