The father of a teenager found dead on a rural road received a call from his son shortly before he died.

Dean Geary, 19, from Alexandria, was found on the A811 Drymen to Gartocharn road in Stirlingshire.

He had been on a night out in Glasgow and was last seen in George Street.

Dean got into a taxi or private hire car just before 3am. He was found dead at around 5.30am, having suffered a serious head injury.

His father John, 42, said Dean phoned him when he was trying to get in touch with a friend who had a car.

Mr Geary said: “Dean called me by mistake. I told him I was still in bed and that was the last I heard of him.”

The devastating news was broken to Dean’s girlfriend Nadine Fitzpatrick, 18, while she was visiting her sister in France.

Police are treating the Ministry of Defence worker’s death as unexplained.

Meanwhile, a teenage boy is in a critical condition after a road crash.

The 17-year-old was driving a Toyota Yaris when it collided with another car near Gartcosh, North Lanarkshire, at around 8pm last night. The road was closed for seven hours.

The teenager was taken to Monklands Hospital, in Airdrie, for treatment after suffering serious chest injuries.

A female passenger was believed to have suffered minor facial injuries.

The occupants of the second vehicle were not believed to have been injured.