Roads closed after car and bike crash

Emergency services raced to Melfort Place in Trottick, off Old Glamis Road, where eyewitnesses reported seeing a young man receiving treatment at the scene. Sections of Old Glamis Road, Melfort Place (pictured inset) and Kilmore Terrace were shut off while the incident was dealt with last night.

David Anderson, 46, who stays on Old Glamis Road, witnessed the scene.

He said: “At first I wasn’t sure what had happened but it definitely looked like there had been a crash of some sort.

“Police had closed off Old Glamis Road to traffic and everything had come to a standstill, although it was quite quiet at the time anyway.

“It looked like someone might have been hurt.”

One woman who lives in the area said: “There were six police cars, ambulances and lots of flashing lights. Police told me there had been an accident and refused to let me drive home. “I had to park up and walk half-a-mile home. I saw a wheel on the grass.

“The ambulance was on the scene for an hour and they were treating a teenager.

“His head was in a brace and he wasn’t moving. I just hope he’s OK.”

A man who lives nearby added: “I had been out walking my dog and saw a commotion going on at the junction of Old Glamis Road and Melfort Place.

“I could see there had been an accident. A car had obviously been involved but I don’t know what else.

“There were quite a few emergency vehicles and I could see police and an ambulance. It definitely looked like someone had been hurt as I could see paramedics attending to someone at the side of the road. “It looked like a fairly young person.” A woman who stays close to the junction said: “Paramedics seemed to be attending to someone who was lying on the ground but I couldn’t see who it was.

“The person was then put into the back of the ambulance.”

A spokesman for Police Scotland confirmed officers and paramedics had been called to Melfort Place at 7.42pm yesterday.

He said that reports suggested the incident had involved a car and a motorbike. He added that no one had suffered lifethreatening injuries but was unable to confirm further details.

POLICE shut off several Dundee roads after a crash between a car and a motorbike.

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