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Snowman rally: Woman killed as car hits spectators | |
(35 minutes later) | |
A 50-year-old woman has died after a rally car left the track and collided with spectators in the Highlands. | |
An eight-year-old boy was taken to hospital but police said his condition was not believed to be life-threatening. | |
The incident happened on the first stage of the Highland Car Club Snowman Rally in Glen Urquhart Forest, about five miles west of Loch Ness. | The incident happened on the first stage of the Highland Car Club Snowman Rally in Glen Urquhart Forest, about five miles west of Loch Ness. |
The event was the opening round of the 2013 Scottish Rally Championship. | |
Northern Constabulary said the rally had been abandoned. | |
Police said the injured boy had been taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. | |
Neither the driver or the co-driver of the rally car was injured in the incident. No other spectators were injured. | |
Officers said the details of the dead woman would not be released until all next of kin had been informed. |