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‘Someone could have been killed’: Watch as driver speeds down wrong side of A90

A father-of-two has captured dramatic footage of a motorist driving the wrong way down a major north-east road.

Ben Russell was travelling along the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen road, between Fortfar and Brechin, when the incident unfolded shortly after 9pm on Sunday.

The 35-year-old, who was heading towards Aberdeen, was into the inside lane as the vehicle approached at speeds of more than 60mph.

Ben Russell had caught the incident on his dashcam.

Police Scotland has now launched an investigation into the incident and officers are making attempts to trace the driver.

Mr Russell said: “If we had collided with them there would have been a loss of life, given the speed we were driving and the speed they were going.

“They must have been going at least 60mph, because it was so dark, we thought the vehicle was on the right side of the motorway as it came around the bend.

“I’ve had to swerve to get out of the way, my worry is on reflection that both of us could have swerved in the same direction to avoid the collision.”

Mr Russell and his partner Michelle Newman pulled over to report the matter.

He added: “When I looked back in the rear-view mirror the driver wasn’t slowing down. There was another vehicles on the road as well.

“It all happened so fast, it looked like it was a silver car but it was hard to tell. My kids were in the back, Lana and Steven, and we tried to keep it quiet from them but Lana did get a fright.

“I was trying to think how this could have happened, was it a foreign driver perhaps who wasn’t familiar with the road and didn’t realise it was a dual carriageway?

“We gave the police the exact location where the incident had happened but I assume it must have been caught on some of the cameras on that stretch of the A90 as well.

“Watching it back on the camera it maybe doesn’t reflect just how quickly it happened but I really had to swerve otherwise there would have been a fatality.”

Ben and his partner were travelling northbound towards Aberdeen when the incident took place.

A police spokesman added: “At around 10.10pm on Sunday, April 18 we received report of a car driving in the wrong direction on the A90 northbound between Finavon and Brechin.

“Officers attended and searched the area but there was no trace of the car. Inquiries into the incident are ongoing.”