Man dies after his car crashes off a causeway into the sea

A MAN died yesterday after his car crashed off a causeway and into the sea in the far north of Scotland. The vehicle skidded off the link on the A838 road near Tongue in Sutherland.

Rescuers managed to pull the driver, plumber David Bowes, from the car and he was flown by helicopter to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Mr Bowes, 46, lived in Skerray, Bettyhill in Sutherland.

Meanwhile, the eastern European couple killed in a horrific crash in which their two-year-old daughter was seriously injured, were named by police yesterday.

Vladimir Ruhno, 34, and Karina Lukjanska, 38, had set up home in the Buchan town of Fraserburgh five years ago after moving to Aberdeenshire from their homes in Estonia and Latvia.

They were killed in the early hours of Sunday in icy conditions near Cortes when their car careered down a steep embankment and landed on its roof.

Their daughter was rushed by ambulance to the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital with serious leg injuries. She remains in a stable condition.

• Strathclyde Police have named the "Good Samaritan" who was knocked down and killed as he tried to help an elderly crash victim. He was Thomas Rarity, 47, from Bathgate, West Lothian.

Mr Rarity died instantly and another man was left fighting for his life when they were struck by a van as they fought to help a 71-year-old woman who had been involved in an earlier accident on the A737 near Linwood, Renfrewshire, on Sunday night.

The second man, who is 39, remains in a critical condition in Glasgow's Southern General Hospital with head and leg injuries.