Man dies in A9 crash

Dec 31 2010 Perthshire Advertiser Friday

A PENSIONER from Cumbernauld was yesterday named as the victim of a horrific smash on the A9 on Wednesday.

Michael Agnew (85), of Darroch Way in the North Lanarkshire town, died after the car he was driving ran into a stationary police vehicle.

Traffic officers had closed a section of the slow lane of the dual carriageway because of potholes when the incident happened at about 6.55pm about a mile north of Aberuthven.

A police spokesperson said yesterday: “An ambulance and trauma team attended but sadly Mr Agnew was pronounced dead at the scene.”

Police confirmed Mr Agnew was driving a blue Fiat Panda which was in collision with a marked traffic police Land Rover.

A spokesperson for the road policing unit said that the two police officers were slightly injured in the incident but did not require hospital treatment.

He added that the officers had closed the lane while awaiting a works vehicle to repair the carriageway.

The road was closed until the early hours of yesterday while accident investigation work and recovery was carried out.

A full report on the incident will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.

The tragedy brings the toll to two on the A9 in Perthshire in the past week, after a lorry driver was killed at Pitlochry in a horror crash on Thursday last week.

And the vicinity of the latest incident is close to another fatal collision at Dalreoch Junction on the route in October.

The road traffic department has asked for anyone witnessing the incident, or who saw the Fiat being driven in the area around that time to contact them on 0300 111 2222.