Tributes to teacher who died in horrific weekend road crash

TRIBUTES have been paid to six people killed in a series of road accidents across Scotland during the weekend.

The victim of a horrific crash on the A92 in Fife between the Forgan and Five Roads roundabout on Sunday evening was named as school teacher Lorna Grant from Dundee.

Ms Grant, who taught at the Dundee's Fintry Primary School, was driving her Renault Clio at about 1pm when it collided with a Volvo 4x4 people carrier.

Firefighters battled for 90 minutes to cut her free before she was airlifted to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, where she later died.

All six occupants of the Volvo - a woman and five children aged under ten - sustained injuries, none of which were life threatening.

Barbara Davie, head teacher at Fintry Primary, said yesterday: "Lorna Grant was a wonderful, inspirational teacher.

"She was innovative, creative, enthusiastic and very hard-working.

"Lorna was totally committed to her role here, loved her job, loved the children and was a joy to have on the staff.

"We are all extremely sad at this loss of someone who was well loved by her colleagues and the children.

"Our thoughts are with her family at this difficult time."

Brian Delorey, of Fife Fire and Rescue, said his team had done everything they could to save Ms Grant.

He added: "Our first problem was gaining access to the woman. It was a long and difficult operation."

A spokesman for Fife Constabulary said a report had been submitted to the procurator-fiscal into the circumstances surrounding the crash.

Police also named a husband and wife who were killed when the motorbike they were riding was involved in a crash on the A9 during Sunday morning.

Peter Corris, 54, and his 53-year-old wife Jacqueline, from Leyland, Lancashire, died in the incident on the main road to the Highlands. The couple were pronounced dead at the scene after the motorbike they were riding hit a car.

Four other people were injured in the crash, which took place about three miles south of Dalwhinnie.

The injured people were trapped the car, including two who suffered serious injuries, and had to be freed by Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service before being taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness for treatment.

There had been a further three deaths on Saturday, one of whom was a 16-year-old motorcyclist, Callum Morrison, who died after his bike collided with a Range Rover on a farm access road near Forfar.

A man who was killed in the early hours of the morning in a single-vehicle crash in Aberdeen was named as 27-year-old Jamie Berry. Two passengers, a man and a woman, were injured and taken to hospital.

The other Saturday fatality was William Dawson, 38, from Tillicoultry in Clackmannanshire, who died when the white Ford Transit van he was driving crashed shortly after midnight on Saturday. He was pronounced dead at the scene on the A941 Elgin to Rothes road.