POLICE are on the hunt after a car was found abandoned in Kilwinning after it was involved in a number of accidents.

And the driver of a white Audi was also seen travelling the wrong way into oncoming traffic on A78 bypass.

Police received reports of an accident near to the Eglinton Interchange around 11.35am on Sunday, February 10 where the vehicle struck another car and drove away without stopping.

A short time later it was said that the same car was driving up the A78 into oncoming traffic. Police attended and later recovered the car on Kilwinning’s Almswall Road but there was nobody inside.

The same car is believed to have struck vehicles in Ardrossan’s Broadway and Castle Road the same morning.

Enquiries are ongoing to trace the driver.