A man has been rushed to hospital after a car ploughed into an electricity pylon which reportedly caught fire. Emergency services were called to the scene on the A96 near Cairnie, Aberdeenshire, at around 3.35pm on Sunday, October 9, following reports of a one vehicle crash.
Pictures from the scene show the wrecked motor lying on its roof with debris littered across the carriageway following the horror crash. Officers closed the road for around eight hours due to the mangled power lines lying across the busy roadway between Aberdeen and Inverness.
Over 13 postcodes in the surrounding area were left without power while engineers worked to fix the pylon. Amey Scotland said: "The A96 is currently closed in both directions due to a fallen pylon that is currently on fire."
