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Police said motorists should see the accident as a chilling reminder of the need to take care whilst driving on Highland roads, especially in Summer.

On 8 July Northern Constabulary launched a Summer Safety campaign in Raigmore Hospital's mortuary in Inverness.

The mortuary was chosen as a warning to drivers that they could end up there if they did not drive carefully and comply with road laws.

Since then there has been a number of serious fatal accidents on Highland roads.

An 18-year-old man was killed when his transit van overturned in the Square in Balmacarra, near Kyle of Lochalsh.

Firemen cut the teenager free from the wreckage of his car but he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

'Warnings going unheeded'

On 14 July a woman died in a head-on crash with a bus on the A9 near Dalwhinnie, Inverness-shire.

The driver of the bus was also hurt and had to be cut free from the Wallace Arnold owned coach.

On Thursday last week a three-year-old girl was killed when she was crushed by a Highland Council roadsweeping machine.

Keisha Noble, of Rockwell Terrace, Thurso, died as a result of the injuries she sustained in the accident.

A motorcyclist also died in an accident on the A830 Fort William to Mallaig road.

Elayne Grimes, spokeswoman for Northern Constabulary, said: "People do not seem to be heeding our warnings."