A woman was airlifted to hospital yesterday after a two-car crash at an accident blackspot.
Emergency crews were called Plaidy, on the A947 Aberdeen to Banff road, shortly after 9am.
Firefighters cut the female driver of a silver Vauxhall Corsa free, before paramedics transferred her to the air ambulance waiting in a nearby field. She was flown to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Another woman, in her 20s, who was driving a black Volkswagen Golf was taken to the same hospital in a road ambulance.
The extent of their injuries is not known, although it is understood neither are in a life-threatening condition.
The road, which initially blocked to all traffic, was fully reopened by 11.30am.
Emergency crews poured sand onto the road where the two cars had collided to cover a fuel spill.
A police spokeswoman said: “The two-vehicle crash happened just after 9am on the A947 near Plaidy.
“Two people were injured and one was flown to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Her condition is not known.”
A spokesman for the ambulance service added: “A woman was cut free and taken to ARI by air ambulance. Another woman was taken by road.”
The series of bends at Plaidy, four miles north of Turriff, is a notorious accident blackspot which has claimed two lives in the past 18 months.
In April 2015, 54-year-old biker John Ogston died in a collision with a car just yards from the scene of yesterday’s crash.
And in June this year, 58-year-old man Leslie Stuart was killed when the car he was a passenger in veered off the road and collided with a nearby bungalow.
Recent figures from Aberdeenshire Council have shown there have been 20 fatal incidents on the A947 between Aberdeen and Banff since 2005.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident on the same road, a lorry was involved in a minor accident at about 10am.
The vehicle came off the road at a corner between Newmachar and St Katherines. No one was injured.
