Investigations are continuing into a crash that killed a well-respected north-east council boss seven months ago.
Aberdeenshire Council’s head of housing, Douglas Edwardson, died three weeks after his car collided with a tractor on the A944 Aberdeen to Alford Road, near Dunecht.
Last night the Crown Office confirmed the incident, involving a grey Seat Leon and a tractor, was still being looked into by their specialist unit.
Mr Edwardson, of Alford, was put into an induced coma in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the crash on December 5 last year.
Following his death, the 58-year-old father-of-four was described as “warm and generous” and “kind and caring” as the tributes flooded in.
Last night a Crown Office spokesman confirmed the death was being looked into by the Scottish Fatalities Investigation Unit (SFIU).
He added: “The procurator fiscal has received a report in connection with the death of a 58-year-old male at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 16 December 2015, following a road traffic collision on the A944 Alford to Aberdeen road near Dunecht on December 5, 2015.
“The investigation into the death, under the direction of SFIU, is ongoing and the family will be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.”
The SFIU is a specialist unit responsible for looking into all sudden, suspicious, accidental and unexplained deaths.
Mr Edwardson was head of the council’s housing department from 2009, but was well-known in the Banff and Buchan area where he lived and worked previously.
His family later moved to Alford, where he was involved with local issues and was chairman of the hall and property committee for Howe Trinity Church.
After his death, the council’s chief executive Jim Savage said: “Douglas was an incredibly warm, loyal and supportive colleague who will be greatly missed by many people right across this council.”
Head of the local authority’s social work and housing committee – which Mr Edwardson always attended – Anne Allan said: “I would very much class him as my friend. You could talk to him about anything, he was a lovely, lovely person.”
