A Scots van driver crashed into two cars and left an Edinburgh motorway blocked at rush hour after suffering a sneezing fit behind the wheel.
Alexander Harkness, 29, careered into the back of vehicles on Edinburgh’s City Bypass at speed in his Peugeot van. Two women in one of the smashed cars were taken to hospital for treatment after the collision.
Harkness, who suffers from hay fever, told police he started sneezing moments before the high-speed impacts. He appeared at the city’s sheriff court on Wednesday and admitted driving without due care and consideration.
