A pensioner has denied causing serious injury by driving into the path of a lorry which crashed into an ambulance transporting a patient to hospital.
Donald Sutherland, 80, is accused of driving his car onto the A92 dual carriageway on the Aberdeen to Stonehaven road where a collision occurred with a Norscot lorry and an ambulance.
The road was closed for several hours as the emergency services dealt with the incident, which took place between the Bridge of Dee and Charleston.
The non-emergency patient who was being taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary was not injured however a man was seriously injured in the collision.
A paramedic was also taken to hospital for a check-up.
Sutherland denies the charge against him.
The charge alleges that on September 22 last year, Sutherland caused serious injury to the man by driving his car without due care and attention or reasonable consideration of other road users.
It claims Sutherland caused the crash by driving onto the dual carriageway and into the path of a Norscot lorry attached to a vehicle transporter, which was subsequently knocked into the path of the ambulance.
All three vehicles were damaged as a result of the collision.
A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said at the time that a patient was in the process of being transported to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on a non-emergency call.
“One of our staff members was checked over at hospital and the patient, who was not injured, was transported to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary by another crew,” he said.
Sutherland, who was not present, was represented at Aberdeen Sheriff Court by defence solicitor Ian Woodward-Nutt, who entered a plea of not guilty.
Sheriff Donald Ferguson set a future intermediate diet hearing and a trial date for Sutherland, of Picardy Court, Aberdeen, for later this year.
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