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In 2022, despite the installation of average speed cameras, 17 people died on the A9, of whom 13 were on the stretch between Perth and Inverness, where much of the route is single carriageway. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] This has meant that the number of fatalities rose to its highest level in 20 years; between 2019 and 2021, only one death was reported per ...
Between Perth and Inverness, the road has been dubbed Killer A9, [13] because of accidents and fatalities where dual-carriageway sections merge into a single-carriageway – the principal cause being motorists driving at excessive speeds to overtake lines of slower-moving vehicles before the dual carriageway ends.
About 77 miles (124km) have still to be improved as part of the £3bn project, which will extend from Inverness to Perth. Funding of A9 dualling project a real concern, say MSPs Completion date ...
As of July 2023, 335 people had been killed on the Perth-to-Inverness stretch of the road since 1979 (an average of 7.6 deaths per year), 59 of which occurred between 2011 and 2022 (an average of 5.4 deaths per year). The "A9 Dual Action Group" was established to bring attention to the statistics
In July 2013, the Scottish Government announced a plan to install average speed cameras on the A9 between Perth and Inverness. This has been undertaken with an aim to reduce accidents and fatalities on the road, and will be the second permanent average speed camera scheme in Scotland. [88]
The link road will connect to this section of the A9, north of the Inveralmond Roundabout The Cross Tay Link Road is a road-construction project in Perth and Kinross , Scotland. It will link the A93 and A94 roads, near Scone , to the A9 north of the Inveralmond Roundabout , at Perth , via a new stretch of road, 3.7 miles (6.0 km) long. [ 1 ]
The A9 at Slochd Summit. The Slochd Summit (/ s l ɒ x k /; [1] Scottish Gaelic: An Sloc) is a mountain pass on the A9 road and the Highland Main Line Railway in the Scottish Highlands between Inverness and Aviemore. An old military road also goes through the pass. National Cycle Network route 7 also goes over the summit, largely following the ...
The Sustrans National Cycle Route 7 between Glasgow and Inverness also runs through the pass. The pass is the only gap in the main Grampian Watershed suitable for road traffic routes for almost 100 km, between Glen Coe (west) and Cairnwell Pass (east); the West Highland Railway is the only other crossing, at Corrour .