A82 closed due to serious accident.

[Schtum]

Information from The Green Welly Stop at 12:45 pm today: A82 to Glencoe and Fort William closed due to a serious accident. Traffic is being diverted up the Oban road.

 

[mcinlb]

Accident on A82

Heard on the news, motorcyclist and car at the Glencoe tourist centre area............

 

[G.C.]

Heard this morning at work, bike rider dead.
Fatality up here = road closed 6hrs minimum.Think its Elgin that the police investigation unit come from.
-1 this morning when I got in my car about 9am, still frost on the ground at opening time.
Hope its no-one I know............. banana

 

[G.C.]

A BIKER killed in a fireball crash in the west Highlands has been named by police.
Robert Morrison, 48, from Dundee, died at the scene of the accident, involving his bike and a car, just north of the Glencoe Ski Centre, on the A82, which runs from Inverness to Glasgow via Fort William.

Both vehicles caught fire in the smash on Saturday at around 11am.

Fire crews from Kinlochleven and Fort William attended.

Two people in the car were taken to Belford Hospital in Fort William with minor injuries.

A report is being submitted to the procurator fiscal.

Mr Morrison is the fourth person to died on the notorious A82 this year.

The road was closed for five hours while police investigated the accident

 

[ossa eck]

Bob was a good friend of mine ,a lifelong biker and an all-round good guy .RIP Bob

 

[RedRick Esq.]

Bob was a good friend of mine ,a lifelong biker and an all-round good guy .RIP Bob

Thats a bugger ! sorry pal, its hard when you lose friends in this way, my sympathy and sorrow is with you and his family