Karen told BBC Scotland News that although she ended up looking after the duo for the night, it had been a team effort to try and keep them safe.
She said: “There was a lot of chat on Facebook groups about them – my neighbour posted a video of them in the garden that morning. Initially it was really exciting as we’re quite a way from the shore.
“They’d been spotted quite a few times during the day, but at night my cousin Jordan and his girlfriend found them out on the road. They were lying there, pretty helpless. They seemed stuck in a car engine bay.
“I went over and there were quite a few people there at that point. They were trying to coax them out the car but they had hunkered down and were trying to sleep.”
They tried to contact animal recuse services however they were closed, so someone phoned the police.
“They said if the otters were in immediate danger to try and help them,” Karen added.