A 68-year-old man is in a critical condition after a collision with a car in Seafield Road, Aberdeen yesterday evening.
The man was taken by ambulance to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where medical staff describe his condition as critical.
Police are now appealing for information following the collision which involved a Volkswagen Golf car.
The occupants of the car were not injured.
Police cordoned off a stretch of the west-end street following the incident. The road has since re-opened.
Constable Geoff Smart, North East Roads Policing Unit, said: “Our inquiries into the cause of the crash are continuing.
Police call for more information
“Officers are appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident and has not yet spoken to police to get in touch.
“Seafield Road is a main thoroughfare and there would have been a number of people in the area at the time.”
Information can be passed to officers via 101, quoting reference number 3181 of Wednesday, 6 March 2024.
At the scene, one eyewitness said he saw just one vehicle following the accident which had a damaged, smashed windshield.
He said: “I believe it hit a pedestrian.”
He added that several police vehicles and multiple ambulances arrived at around 7:30pm.
The road was taped off from Seafield Court to near the Palm Court Hotel.
Locals expressed their shock, saying major incidents like this “never happen here”.
One man said: “I thought it was a car crash, but I can’t really see anything from my window.
“The only time I see officers here in the middle of the road is when there is a crash, there’s tape up as well.
“I’ve seen five police cars just at this side, I was really surprised to see this many.
Another added: “This type of thing doesn’t normally happen around here.
“If it had just been a normal accident then I wouldn’t have expected to see so many police vehicles around here.”
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