Cars flip and career off roads in crashes

A CAR ploughed off an Aberdeenshire road today and landed on its roof.

The blue Ford Focus flipped after it careered into a grass verge near a bridge.

A section of wall was knocked down in the crash, which happened on the A947 Aberdeen to Banff road, near the turn-off to Newmachar golf course, at 11.05am.

A Scottish Ambulance Service spokeswoman said the woman who was driving the Ford Focus did not need any medical treatment.

In a separate crash, a dark red Renault careered off Aberdeen’s Scotstown Road and rolled up an embankment before landing in a bush at the side of the road near the rubbish tip in Aberdeen’s Bridge of Don about 10am.

A woman, who was driving the Renault, was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as a precaution.

No one else was injured in the one-car Scotstown Road smash.

Meanwhile, a car burst into flames after a crash on an Aberdeenshire road.

Grampian Police and Grampian Fire and Rescue Service crews were called to the scene of the two-car smash yesterday on the B994 Kemnay to Kintore at 6.15pm.

A Grampian Police spokesman said one of the cars was smoking from under the bonnet.

The drivers of both cars escaped uninjured.

In an earlier crash on Scotstown Road, Bridge of Don, yesterday the driver escaped uninjured when a Vauxhall Astra flipped on to its roof at 7.30pm.

And a two-car crash on Inverurie's Gordon Terrace at 8pm yesterday left the road blocked.

lkernan@ajkl.co.uk