One of the police officers injured in a horrific crash on the M90 is still unconscious in hospital, his boss had said.
Chief Superintendent Stewart Carle, head of Road Policing Scotland, visited the officer, who was one of two injured in the incident, on Thursday.
The pair’s marked police car left the carriageway and ended up on a grass verge on the M90 northbound near Kelty on Sunday.
They had been responding to reports of a drunk driver in Fife at the time.
The driver was taken to the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, where he is being treated for neurological injuries, while his passenger was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee with back injuries.
Mr Carle did not reveal which hospital he had visited, but praised the NHS staff treating his colleague in a Tweet.
He said: “Today with CI Patterson, I visited one of @polscotrpu officers injured in Sunday evening’s RTC on M90.
“Whilst he remains unconscious, the intensive treatment & care from #NHSScotland is humbling as is the bravely optimistic love & unstinting attention from his fiancée & family.”
Today with CI Patterson, I visited one of @polscotrpu officers injured in Sunday evening’s RTC on M90. Whilst he remains unconscious, the intensive treatment & care from #NHSScotland is humbling as is the bravely optimistic love & unstinting attention from his fiancée & family.
— CS Stewart Carle (@ChSuptRoads) October 10, 2019
The accident, which involved a marked BMW 330 patrol car, happened about 1.5 miles north of the Kelty junction on the northbound carriageway of the M90.
The carriageway was closed for nearly 12 hours while it was investigated.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sent three appliances to the scene.
