Appeal following serious crash on the A6105 East Gordon

Road Policing officers are appealing for information following a serious crash near East Gordon in the Scottish Borders today.

Around 8.05am on Wednesday, 31 January, 2024, we received a report of a road traffic collision involving a bin lorry and a pedestrian on the A6105 near a junction with an unclassified local road.

Emergency services attended and an 11-year-old girl, the pedestrian, was taken by air ambulance to the Royal Hospital for Children in Edinburgh. Her condition has been described as critical.

The occupants of the bin lorry were uninjured.

Inspector Ross Drummond said: "Our enquiries into this collision are ongoing and we are keen to speak to the drivers of other vehicles which were traveling on the A6105 at the time.

"We would also ask anyone who may have dashcam footage that captures the vehicle or the pedestrian involved prior to the collision happening to contact police".

Anyone with information is asked to contact Police Scotland via 101 quoting incident number 0574 of 31 January, 2024.