Bus crash call ambulance in bike collision

AN ambulance carrying a road crash victim collided with a biker yesterday as it made its way to hospital.

The accident happened on the same stretch of road as the smash that the emergency vehicle had attended.

The ambulance was called to the A82 around two miles south of Invergarry, Inverness-shire, at around 1.40pm after a 35-seat bus came off the road and ended up on its side.

An air ambulance took an injured woman to Raigmore Hospital, while the road ambulance took a male passenger.

But on the way, at around 2pm and two miles south of Urquhart Castle on the banks of Loch Ness, the vehicle was in a crash with a motorcycle.

The bike was part of a group of about eight heading south.

A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesman said: ‘One female patient in her twenties was taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness by air ambulance.

‘An ambulance taking a male patient in his twenties from the incident to Raigmore Hospital was involved in a road traffic collision with a motorcycle on the A82.

‘The patient on board and a male in his thirties were transported to Raigmore Hospital by road ambulances.

‘We are assisting Police Scotland with their ongoing inquiries.’

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said its crews also attended the bus crash but that everyone on board had managed to get off the vehicle by the time they arrived at the scene.

Both lanes of traffic near the Invergarry Hotel were blocked afterwards, as were both lanes near Urquhart Castle after the later crash, with diversions put in place.