Driver fights for life after van crash
Road closed after accident
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A MAN was today fighting for his life after his van crashed through a wall and ploughed into a garden.
The driver, who is in his late 30s, was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the accident.
Police closed the road after the crash on the unclassified Whiteford to Meikle Wartle road, south of Durno.
Grampian Police Inspector Jim Wood said: “The van had been travelling towards the entrance to Durno when it left the road and entered the garden of a house. It hit a wall and trees.”
Emergency services were alerted at around 3am. The driver, who was believed to live locally, was taken to ARI and was said to be in a critical condition.
Insp Wood said officers were examining the scene and the road was expected to remain closed for several hours.
The crash was one of several in the region. Police were called to a two-car crash a mile south of Huntly on the A96 Aberdeen to Inverness road, involving a black Vauxhall Vectra and another car.
Crews from Grampian Fire and Rescue Service were also called to the scene at about 7.30pm yesterday.
No one was injured as a result of the collision.
And in another crash a Renault Scenic flipped over on the old A96 road, near Inverurie. No one was injured.
The crashes came just days after a lorry driver was killed when his vehicle careered into a garden at the side of the A98 Banff to Fraserburgh road.
Graham Wallace, 54, died at the scene of the crash at Longmanhill, near Macduff.
