A9 incidents, accidents and fatalities between January 2020 - 2024: FOI release

Information requested

1. How many road traffic accidents there were on the A9 between January 1st 2020 and January 1st 2024, delineated by year.

• On dual-carriageway sections
• On non-dual-carriageway sections

2. How many fatal incidents there were on the A9 between January 1st 2020 and January 1st 2024, delineated by year.

• On dual-carriageway sections
• On non-dual-carriageway sections

3. How many injury-causing incidents there were on the A9 between January 1st 2020 and January 1st 2024, delineated by year.

• On dual-carriageway sections
• On non-dual-carriageway sections

Response

Please find the requested information in the tables below.

You should already have received a response (sent on 15 May 2024) to a previous FOI request, which also contains the information below. I appreciate that you therefore already have this information.

However, in the absence of this specific request being withdrawn, I am obliged to provide you with this response.

With regards to traffic collisions, the records we hold relate to collisions where someone is injured or killed, and which become known to Police Scotland. Therefore we do not hold information on non-injury collisions. The following table shows the number of injury collisions on the A9. Please note that the figures for 2023 are provisional and final figures will be released in October 2024. This may be an incomplete picture of the number of casualties due to a slight lag between records processed by Police Scotland and data availability. These figures are also subject to change due to subsequent corrections and late records.

Collisions on the A9 by whether on dual or non dual carriageways.
	Non Dual carriageway	Dual carriageway (2)	Total
2020	42	22	64
2021	47	34	81
2022	56	27	83
2023 (1)	54	31	85
Total	199	114	313
Fatal collisions on the A9 by whether on dual or non dual carriageways.
	Non Dual carriageway	Dual carriageway (2)	Total
2020	2	1	3
2021	2	1	3
2022	9	3	12
2023 (1)	2	2	4
Total	15	7	22
(1) Provisional
(2) Dual includes motorways, dual carriageways and slip roads

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