An OAP has been airlifted to hospital after her motor flipped on its roof after plunging down an embankment in Dumfries and Galloway.
Emergency services were called to the scene on the A747 between Glenluce and Port William after being called shortly before 9am on Monday, January 30.
A picture from the scene shows firefighters working around the wrecked motor, which has landed near rocks off the coastal road, as they tried to free the stricken 75-year-old.
An air ambulance was called to the scene alongside a Scottish Ambulance Service trauma team. The pensioner was then airlifted to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow with serious injuries.
A statement from Police Scotland said: “We were called around 8.45am on Monday, 30 January, to a report of a one car crash on the A747 between Glenluce and Port William.
“Emergency services attended and a 75–year-old woman, the driver, sustained serious injuries and was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow by heli-med. The road re-opened around 12.55pm.”
A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We received a call at 08:42 to attend a road traffic collision on the A747 between Glenluce and Port William. One ambulance and our trauma team were dispatched to the scene.”
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