Six killed in weekend of crashes

SIX people have been killed in separate accidents in a weekend of motoring tragedy in Scotland.

Grampian Police confirmed that two people died and there were a "number of casualties" after a car crash on the A92 at St Cyrus, Aberdeenshire, yesterday afternoon.

A motorcyclist died in a separate crash on the A87 at 3:45pm yesterday. He was pronounced dead at the scene at Shiel Bridge.

On Saturday afternoon a 48-year-old who was taking part in at a private "banger derby" at Nigg, near Tain, died, and Jimmy Girvan, 56, the 2008 Scottish rally champion from Inverness-shire, was killed in a crash at the Colin McRae Rally near Aberfeldy in Perthshire.

Also on Saturday, Roberto Alongi, 44, originally from Sicily but living in Edinburgh, was killed on the A83 in Argyll when his BMW motorcycle was in collision with a Seat car.

Meanwhile three children and their mother were treated in hospital after an accident near junction 8 on the M74 yesterday. The 37-year-old driver lost control of her car, which struck the central reservation and overturned. She and two of her sons, aged 14 and 12, were taken by ambulance to Wishaw General Hospital, but the youngest boy, ten, was airlifted to hospital with a serious head injury.