A man whose pregnant sister was killed while trying to cross a north-east road junction has added his voice to calls for a flyover to be built.
Darren Ross has urged the Scottish Government to make improvements on the A90 near Laurencekirk as a matter of urgency.
The 38-year-old businessman’s sister, Linda, was killed after trying to join the northbound carriageway from the A937 Laurencekirk to Montrose road in October 2001.
The 27-year-old, from Montrose, was on her way to Aberdeen for a five-month scan when her vehicle collided with another car. She died at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee the following day.
Mr Ross, who regularly uses the A90 Aberdeen-Dundee road for business, said the incident, coupled with the death his younger brother, James, 17, two years earlier, left the family devastated.
The tragedies were too much for his father William to bear, and he committed suicide in 2002.
Earlier this week, the Scottish Government provoked fury by claiming a survey that identified the A937 as the most dangerous road in the country had no bearing on the case for a flyover.
Campaigner Jill Fotheringham said it was incredible that it could be marked as “high risk” by the Road Safety Foundation while Transport Scotland remained insistent that the danger was linked to the road itself and not the junction.
The government agency said it took road safety very seriously and had made improvements to the A90 near Laurencekirk and there had been no fatal or otherwise serious accidents at the southern junction to the town since 2005.
Mr Ross, who is from Aberdeen but now lives in Garlogie, Aberdeenshire, said: “Speed cameras and signs on the A90 have made people nervous and I absolutely hate seeing people waiting in the central reservation trying to cross – it sends a shiver though me.
“The government needs to build this flyover because people across the north-east are well aware of that junction and there is a reason for that.”
Mr Ross said he was grateful to Ms Fotheringham for the work she has done over the last nine years to campaign for a flyover because he “would not have the strength to do it”.