Five vehicles involved in motorway smash

A F I VE-veh icle crash on a busy Perthshire motorway saw one person taken to hospital when a car collided with four other vehicles.

Police believe the driver of the car may have been driving the wrong way down the M90 near Bridge of Earn when it hit the four other vehicles, including an HGV lorry, at around 2pm yesterday.

A spokesman for Police Scotland said officers were “pursuing a line of inquiry” that the driver of the vehicle had turned the wrong way on to the motorway after exiting a slip road.

Paramedics and firefighters were called to the scene of the crash between junctions nine and 10, with one person having to be cut from their car.

A spokesman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “We had to remove one person from one of the vehicles but the rest managed to get out themselves.”

Witness Wattie Garland, 51, said: “I was coming up from Dunfermline towards Perth and I saw cars braking in front of me on the slip road.

“I was overtaking a lorry and I saw a car – I’m not sure what type – with a male driver in it and he was coming the wrong way down towards the motorway.”

The northbound lane of the motorway was closed for nearly two hours following the collision, causing long traffic queues on both the M90 and through Bridge of Earn where diversions were put in place.

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