Man who died after crash named by police

Police have named a man who died after his car crashed down a railway embankment and on to a train station platform.

The accident happened at Larkhall railway station in South Lanarkshire at about 2:40pm on Friday.

Officers named the man as Brian Mccann, 78, of The Acres, Larkhall. Mr Mccann was driving his blackvauxhallc or saw hen he collided with a fence and continued down an embankment to the platform below.

He was taken by ambulance to Wishaw General Hospital in North Lanarkshire, where he later died.