The chairman of a north-east safety group has raised fresh concerns about a major north-east road.
The A90 Aberdeen to Peterhead road between Longhaven and Boddam was closed from around 3pm on Saturday after a silver Vauxhall Corsa and a white Ford Transit collided.
The smash is the latest to take place on the road this year and safety group chairman Brian Topping has now called for action to be taken to prevent any more.
“It is a very, very heavily used and something really needs to be done,” he said.
“There seems to be so many and a lot of them involve speed or frustration. A lot of people would like to see the railway to come back, but I think it needs to be dualled.
“One accident or one injury is too many, and it is certainly high time the road was dualled.”
Work is already underway to dual the A90 stretch from Balmedie to Tipperty as part of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route project.
However, Ellon councillor Gillian Owen is spearheading the Why Stop at Ellon campaign, calling for the work to extend along the entire length of the road.
Last month, Transport Scotland officials attended public meetings in Peterhead and Longhaven to hear the arguments for upgrading the route to Fraserburgh.
The meeting was held just weeks after a man was airlifted to hospital after his Land Rover collided with a lorry near the road’s turn-off to Cruden Bay, while in March there was a four-car pile-up on the road.
Sandy Allan, the chairman of Peterhead’s community safety group, has previously said that it was his belief that drivers needed to be better educated about the road.
“There is nothing inherently wrong with the road, it’s a driver education issue,” he said.