Man dies after crashing into South Lanarkshire railway embankment

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 black Vauxhall Corsa when 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 police say he later died.

A spokesman for Police Scotland said: His family have been informed and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.'