Question reference: S6W-17881
- Date lodged: 11 May 2023
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Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 23 May 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many accident-related temporary closures of the A9 Inverness to Scrabster road have taken place in (a) one and (b) both direction(s) in each of the last five years, broken down by month.
Answer
Closures of the A9 between Inverness and Scrabster due to an accident between 2018 and 2023 (to date), month by month are detailed in the following table:
Year/ Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
2020 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
2021 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2023 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |