A man has been charged following a crash between a car and a police van on a busy north-east road.
Ambulance crews were called to the scene on the A947 Turriff to Banff road at about 8.40am yesterday after a white Vauxhall Astra collided with a police transit van.
Last night a spokeswoman for the police said no one was seriously injured during the crash but said a man had been taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as a precaution.
She would not confirm whether the casualty had been injured whilst travelling in the car or the van.
The spokeswoman said that as a result of the incident the 26-year-old driver of the Astra has been reported to the Procurator Fiscal.
The A947 is one of the most dangerous roads in Aberdeenshire.
Recent figures from Aberdeenshire Council show there have been 20 fatal incidents on the route between Aberdeen and Banff since 2005.
And in the past 18 months it has claimed two lives.
A 54-year-old biker was killed in a collision with a car on the road last April and two months ago a 58-year-old man died when the car he was travelling in veered off the road and crashed into a house.
To make the 38-mile stretch of road safer for the thousands of people who travel on it each day, the local authority has devised a route improvement strategy.
It details 20 specific options to reduce A947 casualties over the next two decades.
Among the ideas tabled include dualling the road between Dyce and Newmachar for £38million, between Dyce and Oldmeldrum for £154million – or even dualling the entire route for a bill of £514million.
