Residue from diesel trains is thought to be behind a series of road accidents in northeast Scotland, resulting in three deaths LONDON NEWS PICTURES/REX/SHUTTERSTOCKFatal crashes on a straight stretch of road may have been caused by a build-up of slippery residue from the exhausts of diesel trains that run near by, it emerged yesterday. Three lives have been lost on the A937 near the Angus village of Craigo, five miles northeast of Montrose, in the past year. Now information has been passed to Police Scotland by Angus council in the wake of the latest crash last week in which two people were killed. It is understood the details relate to a theory that particles from locomotive exhausts have accumulated on that stretch of the road. The possibility has arisen because the train track runs parallel and 20ft above the road only on the notorious 500-yard stretch.

Source: The Times August 21, 2017 23:03 UTC