Two leading scientists victims of A90 crash

TWO top Scottish scientists have been named as the victims of a fatal road crash.

Stewart Rhind and Julian Dawson were travelling northbound when the car they were passengers in collided with another vehicle on the A90 Dundee-Aberdeen road, near Fordoun.

The scientists, from agricultural research centre the James Hutton Institute, died at the scene of the crash, while the drivers of the two cars were taken to hospital with various fractures.

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