TOURISTS driving in the Highlands are being encouraged to display “T-plates” to prevent accidents.
The signs feature a green letter T and “tourist” written on them.
They are intended to serve as a warning to other road users that the driver is inexperienced in driving in Scotland.
It comes after Transport Scotland warned earlier this year that the number of crashes caused by "inexperience of driving on the left" has increased sharply.
"Just reaching roundabouts, junctions, just starting the journey initially - I was on the wrong side of the road, every control and dial was in a different place - and I just was screaming at my partner 'I wish these people knew I was a tourist,'" he told Good Morning Scotland.
"It's a simple idea but it's one that's really started conversations about road safety.”
Laura Hanser, a road safety campaigner with the A9 Dual Action Group, helped in the launch of the plates and said they seemed effective.
"I went out on a single carriageway at 50mph. I would let different vehicles catch up with me,” she told the BBC.
"You were very aware of a couple of seconds until they acknowledged that and there was a definite pull back... in acknowledgement that that plate was on your car."
She added: "The infrastructure in the Highlands is under severe strain with the sheer influx of tourism, so anything that we can do to help prevent or create a wee bit more awareness about other people's driving and take that added stress away from them can only be seen as a positive."
The plates can be purchased on the website here.
