Ninth fatality in a week on the North East's roads

The number of people who've died in the past week after car crashes in the North East has risen to nine.

A 75-year-old man was killed yesterday when his car crashed into a wall in Aberdeen.

Police said a grey Ford Ka hit a wall in Berrywell Walk, Dyce, at around 2pm on Tuesday.

The driver was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary but died a short time later. Two passengers in the car were not hurt in the incident.

Meanwhile officers have named a 53-year-old man who died in a crash in Aberdeenshire at the weekend.

Marek Walowski from Macduff was driving on the A947 Turriff to Banff road on Sunday night when his car left the road and hit a tree.

Yesterday police named Andrew Lawton as the 47-year-old who died in a separate accident involving a tree on the A90 near St Fergus.

We also learned 69-year-old Ann Moore, who was badly hurt in a car crash on the A952 between Mintlaw and Fraserburgh, had died in hospital.

It follows the deaths of five people in Thursday night's horrific crash on the A96 near Keith.

Three of them lived locally, while a 4-year-old boy and a woman were both from Italy.

Last year the North East had the lowest number of road accident fatalities since records began - 14 for the whole of 2017.