Elderly Grantown road crash victim named by police

Matthew Donnell's car was in collision with a lorry

Published 10th Oct 2020

The elderly driver of a car who died after a crash with an articulated lorry in the Highlands has been named as Matthew Donnell

His black Peugeot 2008 collided with the DAF vehicle at around 11am on Wednesday on a section of the A939, known as the Dava road, a few miles away from his Grantown-on-Spey hometown.

The 86-year-old was driving the car and was pronounced dead at the scene.

An 81-year-old woman was also taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness where she remains for treatment. Her condition is still described as serious.

Sergeant David Miller said: Our thoughts are with Mr Donnell's family.

I would ask anyone who may have been driving along that stretch of road before the collision happened to get in touch and to check if they have any dash-cam footage that could help with our investigation.

If you can help please call Police Scotland on 101, quoting incident 0987 of Wednesday, 7 October, 2020.''