A police officer has been charged after a high-speed crash on a Scottish road.
Stuart Scanlin, whose address was given on court papers as care of Police Scotland’s Professional Standards Department, Fettes Avenue, Edinburgh, is accused of driving dangerously and at excessive speed before the collision with a blue farm tractor near Cupar, Fife.
It is alleged that Scanlin, 45, crossed solid double white lines and drove onto the opposite carriageway of the A92 at Parbroath, near Cupar.
According to the charge against him, he then overtook the tractor “at high speed” while the agricultural vehicle was indicating and turning right into an access road.
After colliding with the tractor, Scanlin’s white VW Golf is then said to have left the road, colliding with and damaging a fence.
The incident took place on September 9 2018.
It is understood the vehicle Scanlin was driving was not a police car.
At Dundee Sheriff Court yesterday, Scanlin’s solicitor Ross Donnelly asked for the case to be continued without plea for three weeks: “for investigations”.
Sheriff Derek Reekie continued the case until July 12.
