A five-vehicle crash on one of the north-east’s busiest commuter routes caused major delays last night.
The pick-up truck and four cars collided on the A90 Aberdeen to Peterhead road, near Foveran, at about 4.40pm.
Nobody was injured, but police closed off the road near the A975 junction to Newburgh for more than an hour.
Traffic backed up all the way towards the dual-carriageway at Balmedie, although vehicles were diverted through Newburgh and back onto the A90 near Tipperty.
The vehicles involved a truck – believed to be an AWPR pick-up – a red Ford Ka, white Kia Picanto, black Hyundai Santa Fe and a silver Audi A5, but none of them were too badly damaged in the shunt.
Mid-Formartine councillor Jim Gifford said the accident highlighted the need for the long-awaited dualling of the Balmedie to Tipperty stretch of the A90.
He said: “My wife was caught up in the tailbacks from the crash. The junction is notorious for accidents and is one of the many, many reasons that we need the Balmedie to Tipperty dualling completed as quickly as possible, so that this junction gets taken out of the equation.
“The community groups, the police, the fire and rescue service – everybody has been going on for years about road safety, as the north-east has a horrendous accident record, but the message still doesn’t seem to be getting across.
“But a lot of these accidents are due to speeder driver error, and I’m not sure what else we can do that we’re not already doing to improve that.
“We just need this road finished so that traffic isn’t crossing the A90.”
The accident is the latest in a spate of incidents on the busy road.
On Thursday, three-vehicles collided near Ellon, while just days before a lorry and two cars crashed near Balmedie.
And on September 28, two lorry drivers were killed in a head-on smash just past Balmedie, near the Trump International Golf Links Scotland turn-off.