{"id":426936,"date":"2025-09-15T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/426936\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:46:11","slug":"two-dead-following-crash-in-scottish-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/426936\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead following crash in Scottish Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died and two others needed hospital treatment following a crash on the A9 in the Scottish Highlands.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened shortly after 7am on Monday at Slochd, between Inverness and Aviemore.<\/p>\n<p>It involved a white Ford Fiesta car and a white Vauxhall Vivaro van.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services attended and the two occupants of the car, a 45-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man, were both pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The two males who had been travelling in the van were taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness for treatment and were later discharged.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed until about 2.45pm while investigations at the scene were carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Chris Donaldson, of the Highland and Islands road policing unit, said: \u201cOur thoughts are with the family and friends of both people who died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investigation to establish what led to this collision is ongoing and we would urge anyone with information or dashcam footage which would assist our inquiry to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who can help is asked to call 101, quoting reference 0441 of September 15, 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died and two others needed hospital treatment following a crash on the A9 in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[145671,748,6640,4884,97249,145672,712,145673,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-426936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-a9","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-highlands","13":"tag-raigmore-hospital","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-slochd","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115209803286738336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426936","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=426936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}