Jon Hebditch
Three people were injured after a two-car crash in Aberdeenshire yesterday morning.
Emergency services were called to the scene at the B9170 at around 11am, following reports that a grey Ford Focus and a grey Range Rover had collided near the Haddo House Hotel.
Police cars, fire crews and an ambulance made their way to the scene.
The fire service sent two appliances from Inverurie and Oldmeldrum, but everyone in the crushed vehicles had escaped before they needed to be cut out.
Firefighters stayed on the scene to ensure the vehicles were safe.
No one is thought to have been seriously injured in the collision, but police said there were three casualties.
The road was blocked for a number of hours while officers carried out their investigations, only reopening at 2.30pm.
A police spokeswoman said: “Nobody was seriously injured, but there was fuel on the road, so we had to close it. “
A spokeswoman for the fire service subsequently added: “We made the vehicles safe.”
Last night, a local councillor praised the emergency service response to the incident.
Mid-Formartine member Jim Gifford said: “It’s not a particularly dangerous road, but there have been incidents that way before, especially when people aren’t being careful.
“We obviously don’t know the full details of the accident at this time, but the fact that these people escaped serious injury is obviously excellent news.
“Our emergency services are always first class in these situations.
“They do a sterling job at anything they are sent to, as we often hear in our committees, and this unfortunately includes road traffic accidents.”
The road, although busy, is not renowned as an accident blackspot.