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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 ...
The road then followed the now familiar route to Stirling and then up to Perth and onwards to Inverness, going through numerous villages en route. [9] [10] The original A9 terminated at Inverness, but in the years that followed it was extended to include the roadway all the way up to John O'Groats.
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
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 ]
Along with the A9 and the A82 it is one of the three major north–south trunk roads connecting the Central Belt to northern destinations. The A90 is not continuous: there is a gap between Dalmeny and Perth, but the M90 connects those two places.
Inveralmond Roundabout is a major traffic roundabout in Perth, Scotland.Located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north-northwest of the city centre, it is the meeting point of the A912 Dunkeld Road [2] (at the northern terminus of its route to and from the city centre) and the more prominent A9 road, which changes between being east–west running to north–south, picking up its historic route ...
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]
It has staggered junctions with the A9. From the A949 the A9 runs (1) generally north to Thurso and (2) generally south to Tain, Inverness, Perth, Stirling and Falkirk. From the A9, just north of Tain and the Dornoch Firth, the A949 runs (1) west to the A836 at Bonar Bridge and (2) east to Dornoch. The junctions are about 1 mile (2 km) apart.