A tourist who recently visited Lochaber on a motorcycle holiday has been found guilty of careless driving after a head-on collision with a car near Glencoe earlier this year.
Peter van Gerven, 55, from Schoten in Belgium, appeared at Fort William Sheriff Court last week on a charge of reckless and dangerous driving after his BMW motorbike collided head on with a car on the B863 at Callart Boat House near Glencoe village on June 13, 2018, causing injury to himself, his passenger and the driver of the other car.
However, Sheriff Eilidh MacDonald found van Gerven guilty of the lesser charge of careless driving. The court heard that van Gerven was on a motorcycle trip in the area with his partner Frieda Daneel, who was a passenger on the back of his bike at the time of the incident.