Emergency services in the Highlands were kept busy yesterday dealing with a serious motorbike crash and lorry overturning in Lochaber.
A male biker was taken by air ambulance to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness in what was the third accident involving a motorcycle in the space of a week.
The man, whose condition was not known last night, was being treated for injuries after colliding with a car on the A835 Tongue-Ledmore road, just north of Ullapool at Morefield Brae, at about 2.10pm.
It is the latest in a series of such incidents in the past few days, and less than two weeks ago a Belgian tourist was killed after a collision on a single track road in Argyll.
Yesterday the A835 road was closed for about two hours to allow the male motorcyclist to be airlifted to hospital and to clear debris from the road.
The occupants of the car involved were not thought to be hurt in the accident.
The collision happened less than a day after two French bikers were airlifted to hospital with “possible leg fractures” following a crash with a car in Argyll.
And on Saturday a Belgian man was left in a serious condition in hospital after a crash during a motorcycle tour of Scotland.
The 55-year-old was part of a group travelling around the north of the country when he suffered serious injuries in a collision with a blue Mazda 6 on the A87 road near the Cluanie Inn.
In a separate incident, a 66-year-old motorcyclist from Belgium, Germain Hubert Deweer, was killed on a single track road in Argyll on bank holiday Monday, May 2.
Last night Highlands and Islands Labour MSP Dave Stewart, a long-running road safety campaigner, said: “I have always been greatly concerned about the vulnerability of motorcyclists on Highlands and Islands roads. There has been a disproportionate number of accidents on rural roads. It’s really important that drivers keep up efforts to think of motorcyclists, particularly when they overtake on rural rural roads and exiting junctions.”
Yesterday a man was also injured when the lorry he was driving overturned and shed its load on the A82 Fort William-Glasgow road close to the Corran Ferry terminal at Onich, at about 3.15pm.
A police spokeswoman said: “The male driver is being treated for injuries.”
The trunk road was closed for just under three hours and local diversions were put in place.
