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08/09/2003
Tourists injured in Highland coach crash
A coach crash in the Scottish Highlands today has injured around 20 of the passengers on board.
It is believed that some of the Australian tourists have been seriously injured and emergency services were still at the scene working to free a number of passengers trapped in the wreckage of the coach this afternoon.
One of the passengers is reported to have suffered serious chest injuries and has been taken by air ambulance to Caithness General Hospital in Wick.
A Coastguard helicopter called in to assist from the Shetland Islands ferried a number of injured to Dunbar Hospital in Thurso.
The coach was negotiating a difficult bend on the B873 near Syre, 12 miles south of Bettyhill in Sutherland when it left the road and came to rest in a ditch.
It is understood that the Eco-tour coach party had been on their way to John O’Groats when the accident occurred.
(SP)
It is believed that some of the Australian tourists have been seriously injured and emergency services were still at the scene working to free a number of passengers trapped in the wreckage of the coach this afternoon.
One of the passengers is reported to have suffered serious chest injuries and has been taken by air ambulance to Caithness General Hospital in Wick.
A Coastguard helicopter called in to assist from the Shetland Islands ferried a number of injured to Dunbar Hospital in Thurso.
The coach was negotiating a difficult bend on the B873 near Syre, 12 miles south of Bettyhill in Sutherland when it left the road and came to rest in a ditch.
It is understood that the Eco-tour coach party had been on their way to John O’Groats when the accident occurred.
(SP)
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