Motorcyclist killed in crash with car ‘travelling in wrong direction’
Death is at least the fourth similar tragedy this year
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Your support makes all the difference.A motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a car that is thought to have been travelling in the wrong direction – in at least the fourth similar tragedy this year.
The car driver was arrested and taken to hospital for treatment after the accident in Scotland on Saturday.
Emergency services were called to the collision on the A725 East Kilbride expressway at around 6.45am.
The motorbike had caught fire, and the male rider was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man in the car was taken to Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, police said.
A force spokeswoman said: “The car appears to have been travelling in the wrong direction when the collision occurred.”
In April, two men in their 30s were killed after a car was driven the wrong way down the M62 motorway near Bradford in the small hours of the morning. The 22-year-old driver of another car failed a breath test.
Last month, three people were killed when a car towing a caravan drove the wrong way up the M40 before crashing on the carriageway in South Oxfordshire. Two of the victims, both in their eighties, were in the towing car, and the third was in a separate vehicle.
Earlier this month, a man in his 30s was killed in a crash after driving his car the wrong way on the A1(M) in West Yorkshire.
Any witnesses to the East Kilbride crash are being asked to contact police.