A RETIRED couple died and a number of people were injured in a spate
of accidents over the weekend.
The fatal accident occurred on the A9 near Newtonmore when two cars
were in collision. Mr Edmund Smith, of Thornfield Avenue, Brampton,
Chesterfield, and his 69-year-old wife, Sheila, died.
The occupants of the other car sustained minor injuries in the crash
on Saturday.
Mr George McCarthy, 24, was fighting for his life yesterday after the
van in which he was a passenger crashed in Hareleeshill Road, Larkhall.
The van mounted the pavement and struck a lamp post, trapping Mr
McCarthy, of Wilkie Crescent, Larkhall, inside the wreckage.
Mr McCarthy, who had to be cut free by firemen, was taken to Law
Hospital, Carluke, with serious head and leg injuries. He was later
taken to the Southern General in Glasgow, where his condition was
described as critical.
The 29-year-old driver of the van was uninjured.
A woman who lay trapped in the wreckage of her car for several hours
was said to be in a stable condition in Dumfries Infimary yesterday.
Mrs Helen Shennan, 31, of Cotton Street, Castle Douglas, was driving
home when her estate car plunged off the A711 Dalbeattie-Kirkcudbright
coast road at Screel Farm, three miles east of Auchencairn.
She lay semi-conscious until her car was spotted in a field by a
passing milkman who raised the alarm.
Four people, including two pedestrians, were recovering from injuries
after accidents in Fife. Craig Henderson, 19, of St Fillans Crescent,
Aberdour, was stable in Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital after
suffering head and leg injuries when he was hit by a car after stepping
off a bus in Main Street, Aberdour.
Student Joan Guthrie, 18, of Lauder Road, Kirkcaldy, was released from
the town's Victoria Hospital after treatment for a fractured arm, cuts
and bruises when she was struck by a car as she crossed Glamis Road,
Kirkcaldy.
An un-named driver who was trapped for 30 minutes when his van left
the Auchtertool Road and overturned in a field, and his 19-year-old
passenger, John Birrell, of Atholl Terrace, Kirkcaldy, were allowed home
from the same hospital after treatment for minor injuries.
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