Transport Scotland - A9 Perth to Inverness collisions: FOI release

Information requested

1. 2014-2024 data on fatalities on dual carriageway sections of the A9, between Perth and Inverness?

• Broken down by month.
• Broken down by location.

2. 2014-2024 data on fatalities on non-dual carriageway sections of the A9, between Perth and Inverness?

• Broken down by month.
• Broken down by location.
• Including data on fatal accidents relating to overtaking?
• Including data on fatal accidents relating to head on accidents?

3. 2014-2024 data on A9 injury accidents on dual carriageway sections of the A9, between Perth and Inverness?

• Broken down by month.
• Broken down by location.

4. 2014-2024 data on A9 injury accidents on non-dual carriageway sections of the A9, between Perth and Inverness?

• Broken down by month.
• Broken down by location.
• Including data on injury accidents relating to overtaking?
• Including data on injury accidents relating to head on collisions?

5. How many compulsory purchases of land per each 11 dualling areasare projected to take place to help deliver the A9 dualling project? How many have been purchased to date, and how many more are projected to take place, for each of the below 11 locations? And, if you can give any detail on where exactly these CPOs are?

• Luncarty to Pass of Birnam (completed) – how many CPOs?
• Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing (in preparation) – how many CPOs?
• Tay Crossing to Ballinluig (in preparation) – how many CPOs?
• Pitlochry to Killiecrankie (in preparation) – how many CPOs?
• Killiecrankie to Glen Garry (in preparation) – how many CPOs?
• Glen Garry to Dalwhinnie (in preparation) – how many CPOs?
• Dalwhinnie to Crubenmore (in preparation) – how many CPOs
• Crubenmore to Kincraig (in preparation) – how many CPOs?
• Kincraig to Dalraddy (completed) – how many CPOs?
• Dalraddy to Slochd (in preparation) – how many CPOs?
• Tomatin to Moy (under construction) – how many CPOs?

6. 2014-2024 data on fatalities involving foreign nationals (Non-UK residents) on dual carriageway sections of the A9, between Inverness and Perth- Broken down by month
- Broken down by location

7. 2014-2024 data on fatalities involving foreign nationals (Non-UK residents) on non-dual carriageway sections of the A9, between Inverness and Perth- Broken down by month
- Broken down by location

8. 2014-2024 data on A9 injury accidents involving foreign nationals (Non-UK residents) on dual carriageway sections of the A9, between Perth and Inverness

• Broken down by month.
• Broken down by location.

9. 2014-2024 data on A9 injury accidents involving foreign nationals (Non-UK residents) on nondual carriageway sections of the A9, between Perth and Inverness

• Broken down by month.
• Broken down by location.

Response

For ease, I have retained your numbering, and responses are in order of the original request.

Please see Annex A to this response for details of the information requested above for questions 1 - 4.
The limits have been taken from Inveralmond Roundabout to Longman Roundabout.

1. 2014-2024 data on fatalities on dual carriageway sections of the A9, between Perth and Inverness

2. 2014-2024 data on fatalities on non-dual carriageway sections of the A9, between Perth and Inverness

3. 2014-2024 data on A9 injury accidents on dual carriageway sections of the A9, between Perth and Inverness

4. 2014-2024 data on A9 injury accidents on non-dual carriageway sections of the A9, between Perth and Inverness

5. To date 11 Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPO) - 10 of which have been made and one which has been published in draft for comment - have been published for the A9 Dualling programme. One for each of the sections listed above. With the exception of the A9 Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing scheme all CPO’s referenced above have completed the statutory authorisation process. For the A9 Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing scheme a CPO was published in draft on 30 May 2025 for formal comment.

All of the information you have requested is available from the Transport Scotland website. Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.

Details of each of the CPOs promoted in relation to the A9 Dualling programme can be found on the Transport Scotland website as follows:

• Luncarty to Pass of Birnam: Made Road Orders and Compulsory Purchase Order - Luncarty to Pass of Birnam - A9 Dualling | Transport Scotland
• Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing: draft Compulsory Purchase Order | Transport Scotland
• Tay Crossing to Ballinluig: Made Road Order and Compulsory Purchase Order - Tay Crossing to Ballinluig - A9 Dualling | Transport Scotland
• Pitlochry to Killiecrankie: Made Road Orders and Compulsory Purchase Order - Pitlochry to Killiecrankie - A9 Dualling | Transport Scotland
• Killiecrankie to Glen Garry: Made Orders - A9 Dualling - Killiecrankie to Glen Garry | Transport Scotland
• Glen Garry to Dalwhinnie: Made Road Orders and Compulsory Purchase Order - Glen Garry to Dalwhinnie - A9 Dualling | Transport Scotland
• Dalwhinnie to Crubenmore: Made Road Orders and Compulsory Purchase Order - Dalwhinnie to Crubenmore - A9 Dualling | Transport Scotland
• Crubenmore to Kincraig: Made Orders - A9 Dualling - Crubenmore to Kincraig | Transport Scotland
• Kincraig to Dalraddy: Compulsory Purchase Order, notice and plans - Kincraig to Dalraddy - A9 Dualling | Transport Scotland
• Dalraddy to Slochd: Made Orders – A9 Dualling – Dalraddy to Slochd | Transport Scotland
• Tomatin to Moy: Made Orders – A9 Dualling – Tomatin to Moy | Transport Scotland

This exemption is not subject to the 'public interest test', so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.

In respect of questions 6 - 9, while our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the costs of locating, retrieving and providing the information requested would exceed the upper cost limit of £600. This is because, in order to retrieve this data, Transport Scotland staff would need to access the details of over 300 individual collisions to interrogate the data. To look at these individually and extract the data from each record, where we need to look at postcodes, vehicle directions and point of contact would take an analyst approx.. 37.5 hours and as such, responding to this request would therefore lead to a cost significantly in excess of £600.

Under section 12 of FOISA public authorities are not required to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under section 12.

You may, however, wish to consider reducing the scope of your request in order that the costs can be brought below £600. . You may also find it helpful to look at the Scottish Information Commissioner's 'Tips for requesting information under FOI and the EIRs' on his website at: http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Tipsforrequesters.aspx.

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FOI 202500470365 - Information Released - Annex A

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