{"id":385258,"date":"2025-08-30T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385258\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:26:13","slug":"three-teenage-boys-die-at-scene-of-late-night-crash-in-scottish-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385258\/","title":{"rendered":"Three teenage boys die at scene of late-night crash in Scottish Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Three teenage boys have died following a one-car crash in the Highlands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the incident involving a white Ford Fiesta on the A830 between Mallaig and Arisaig at around 11.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>Three people, the driver and two passengers, were confirmed dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although formal identification has yet to take place, investigators believe they are all male and in their mid-teens.<\/p>\n<p>The A830 was closed to allow for investigations to be carried out and re-opened around 11.55am on Friday, 12 hours after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Donnie MacKinnon said: \u201cOur thoughts are with the family and friends of the people who died as a result of this crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances, and I am appealing for anyone who witnessed the crash and hasn\u2019t already spoken to officers to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would also appeal to anyone who was in the area and who may have dash cam footage which could assist to contact us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to contact <strong>101 <\/strong>quoting reference 3941 of August 28, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three teenage boys have died following a one-car crash in the Highlands. Emergency services were called to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-385258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115118183849424288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}