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| A woman, who lay in a crashed car off the M9 near Stirling for three days before police found her, has died. | |
| Lamara Bell, 25, was critically injured in the crash on Sunday, but she and her partner John Yuill, 28, were only discovered by officers on Wednesday. | Lamara Bell, 25, was critically injured in the crash on Sunday, but she and her partner John Yuill, 28, were only discovered by officers on Wednesday. |
| Mr Yuill had already died. Ms Bell has been in a medically-induced coma. | |
| It later emerged that police had received a call about the crash on Sunday, but the information had not been entered into police systems. | It later emerged that police had received a call about the crash on Sunday, but the information had not been entered into police systems. |
| Ms Bell, who was a mother, was being treated at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow having suffered kidney damage from dehydration from lying in the wreckage for so long. | |
| Her brother Martin Bell confirmed her death on Facebook. | |
| "My sister just passed away," he said. | |
| Police apology | |
| The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) is reviewing the handling of the incident, focusing on the call on Sunday. | |
| Police Scotland's chief constable Sir Stephen House had previously apologised to the families of the couple for the "individual failure in our service". | |
| The couple, believed to be from the Falkirk area, had been reported missing to police after last being seen in the company of friends in the Loch Earn area of Stirlingshire in a blue Clio in the early hours of Sunday. | |
| Ms Bell's family had said they were angry and disgusted by the way Police Scotland had handled the case. | |
| The chief constable said a member of the public had called the 101 non-emergency number at about 11:30 on Sunday after seeing the car down the embankment near the Bannockburn slip road. | |
| The call had been taken by an "experienced officer", who has since remained on duty. However, "for reasons yet to be established" this was never entered into systems or sent out to operational teams in the area. | |
| "That we failed both families involved is without doubt," the chief constable said. | |
| There have also been calls for a wider inquiry into the operation of Scotland's single police force in light of the incident. | |
| Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie has said the case for such a probe was becoming "unanswerable" and has questioned Sir Stephen's assertion that the incident centred around an "individual failure" in the service. | |
| The MSP said workload pressure on the police service has been "immense" since the reorganisation of the service into a single force over two years ago - a move which included the centralisation of police control rooms. |