And here we are in 2024 . And still the goverment have failed to even upgrade this road to dual carriageway even to inverness🤦‍♂ Although they think that instaling distance cameras will make it safer🤣. The thing that causes accidents is not just speed but frustration. Having a tractor trundling along a road that always bends away from the driver so makes it difficult and dangerous to try over take.

Accidents are nothing to do with the road its the twats driving the vehicles

Except for very rare instances, it is never the fault of the road. It is people speeding, overtaking dangerously, driving too close to other cars, and just not paying attention to the road ahead. Having driven the full length of the A9 loads of times, I would say I've seen a dangerous overtake, normally on a blind bend, at speed, and near misses almost every trip. The other factor is those drivers that just have to get in front.... coming from a dualled section to a single carriageway, they just have to get ahead.

Driven the A9 thousands of times...I actually used to enjoy the road...I'm not convinced average speed cameras are the correct answer...the road should be dualled....incidentally, a couple of years ago I took as much as I could of what's left of the "old" A9 from Inverness south...it was fabulous!! Roof down and sunshine!

As an American I would say that those highway crossings look very dangerous, then again we seem to be okay with hundreds dying on the roads every day so 🤷🏼

Excellent video. I have driven this road from Fife to Inverness regularly in the past month in a Rigid HGV. The only offenders i found were Artic Drivers tailgating and flashing their lights at me because they were running out of driving time. You would let them pass where their exceeding the speed limit only to pass them a couple miles later when their on a break in a layby. The road is fine, only some of the drivers are the problem. Steve in Fife.

I am a cyclist, and I’m also a motorist, and I also recognize that a lot of cyclists are just overgrown Karen’s. I get it things aren’t perfect but then what is things aren’t perfect in life or even as a driver. As a driver, I have to put up with some twats. But when a cyclist has something that’s not right my God some of them don’t off go on. I’m not all about dangerous situation that’s understandable. A car should always back off because cyclists or four more vulnerable. But a lot of the cyclists I see, are moaning over trivial items or looking for trouble or complaining to the wrong people. I get on my bike. Yes, I get fed up with some near misses. Ive had punchers through bad road surfaces. But sometimes instead of having a chip on your shoulder just have to suck it up. Come on already fellow cyclists come at me By the way, I say this as someone with disabilities that can now only ride a e-bike because of a car that drove into the side of me that put me into a wheelchair for four years and subsequently Still has disabilities 15 years later. Life changing disabilities that forced me to lose my career and my lifestyle but yet I’m here still moaning, less than the average cyclist, And the average car driver. Excluding this rant, of course please people just get on with your life and stop moaning.

Reasoning for people over taking lorries, is the speed limit for lorries is 50 but for cars it is 60. I could imagine it is frustrating driving 10 mph below the speed limit

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE A9, ITS JUST THE UTTERLY STUPID DRIVERS THAT CAUSE THE CRASHES

"Did ye see whit happened ?" "Ooh, no, no, no !"

LOL ! Fraser and McDonald......What stereotyped names !

I’ve heard about this road quite a lot however, I’ve never been that fat north living in the midlands in England. Looking at this, maybe it might be an idea to upgrade the A road to a motorway? Seem to have enough traffic to warrant it!

Despite the comments in the programme about people driving too fast, I was pleasantly surprised on my last visit when it was pelting down with rain on a single carriageway stretch near Blair Atholl that cars were only going at about 40 mph and no-one was daft enough to overtake. I am more familiar with the A9 between Dunblane and Perth though and, having travelled along that stretch since the 1970s, the frequent cross-over junctions still give me the creeps, even with the speed cameras.

Surely it’s time for a public enquiry into the safety of road transport,how many more need to die EVERY DAY before something is done

The American tourists asking about the Arnold Clark sticker on the back of a car, "is it a politician?"

Drove it 3 times a week for work and it doesn't deserve the reputation it got although there have been many bad accidents mostly due to complacency

@15:00 she starts to talk about the coach crash. That was my best friend that drove the coach. She is a fantastic girl and a beautiful person. Glad she has made a 90% recovery from it. Plus I also knew the two guys in the van that actually died on scene. 😢😢😢😢

There is no A9 south of Perth...

Notice most of the people who objected to the dualling are English!

I was sad to see the HGV driver not holding the steering wheel properly. I once had a front tyre blow out on my 6-wheeled tipper, and also a front wheel bearing seize up on my loaded artic when my wife was driving, (at 56mph heading S on the A1 motorway). On both occasions the result of not having both hands on the wheel doesn't bear thinking about! John.

Its the arsehole, no Dalwhinnie?

And a freezer full oh venison?

I've driven the A9 about eight times and always got overtaken by speeding vehicles not happy with me adhering to the speed limit...

This is the best thing that comes out of jock land🤣

Good road , simply bad drivers all day long , humanity is the problem, humans built the damn thing , but it’s human inability to adapt , we’re not all the same which’s the issue 💯🤷‍♂️

No U turns or right hand turns and only left turns with a long on-ramp are a necessity (but this incurs occasional expensive over or under bridges), dual carriageways rather than an alternating 3rd lane is preferred, both must have a median barrier anyway. Almost motorway standard but without an emergency lane - and no SMART roads.

House of Bruar, usual stuff...not owned by Scots, or if it is; plastic Scots, educated in England with no clue of Scottish culture. Scotland is a commodity to make money to some.

I've never understood what the issue is with the A9. Yep, it's long, so it will have a higher accident count. Unless you're an ahole then you can drive it well, but it appears many drivers are aholes and i've seen them often. It's Darwinism, but unfortunately these idiots kill other people.

We've been travelling up the A9 for years. The road must be massive or does someone want to tell them they are going round in circles.

if the A9 was in Engladn this wouldve been upgraded to motorway many years ago but whilst we have SNP idiots in the scottish control this will NEVER BE UPGRADED . STOP Kidding your selves SNP and wasting more of out money on another UNWANTED referendum. The public spoke and SAID NO, but there again apparently we do not have democracy here while STURGEON comments negatively on UK Demoracy...what and itot she is. We pay millions on road tax and nothing gets repaired or upgrraded in many years..WELLL DONE SNP!!!!!!!|

full of idiotic drivers who havent a clue about drving and take the most rediculous chances and have no respect for other drivers on this road!!!

Roads don't kill, people do.

Nothing about the hundreds of potholes and dipps that wreck your car, but very good documentary

Even took Americans to call out the absolute morons that leave Arnold Clark on the back of their car. Yeah pay a fortune for it and give them free advertising taking the shine of your lovely car, idiots

Over the last 40+yrs, I've driven the A9 on various motorcycles, in vans and by car and even towing a caravan. There is nothing or at least not much wrong with the road. As for dangerous, I have yet to see a road jump up and hurt anyone. It is the nutters on the road who are dangerous. Get a grip folks.

Polices attitude remains the same.

I'll call your A9 and raise you the A1 north of Newcastle

Most of the problems here because the speed limit for a HGV on single carriageway in Scotland is 40 MPH and in England and Wales its 50 MPH.

SNP are incompetent and should be held criminally liable for A9 accidents. Recent A9 upgrade plagued by contractor bandits. Serious fraud was alleged but no reporting by the media? Not just ferry contracts. SNP keep spending money on Environmental reports, that were previously carried out, but lapsed because of zero work done. Is that misappropriation of public funds, procurement fraud or incompetence? Roads are developed around the world every day...it's not a new concept so developing them shouldn't take long, and people aren't generally so incompetent they can't run a road construction project so the delays seem very, very irregular. Insanity? Auchterarder Junction was supposed to be closed to crossing over after the Ryder Cup. Perth Council and the SNP for some unknown reason, and against all logic and advice from road safety design consultants, decided to keep it open. We should give out awards for the level of incompetence and lack of productivity of the SNP government and Perthshire Council. And the award should be...drumroll: Public Misappropriation investigations and criminal charges for any fraudulent activity by public servants and/or contractors.

A disgrace Scotland is an oil rich nation we should not have to put up with this.

I worked on two of the "new" sections way back then (mid-seventies) and most I spoke back then working on it or as a residents felt its whole length should have been duel carrageway and underpasses but in Thatcher's world that was never going to happen

All fantastic actors and they all got on together in real life RIP to all of them

I had the absolute honour to drive this road thankfully without issue its a beautiful route

This has not aged well regarding the duelling. The scottish government as usual is a pound short and a day late (a few billion and a few decades) In 3 years they will unlikely be past Dunkeld let alone Pitlochry and beyond.

Very good and thorough documentary on the famous road. I've driven the A9 numerous times for over 20 years, towing my 8 ft. wide danish caravan. The road is slowly being improved introducing more places with overtaking lanes, and is meant to be fully dualled between Perth and Inverness by 2025. At the same time they avoid the level crossings, which is a good thing. Nice to see so many familiar places along the road.

to be fair, my Ducati's front brake was binding. literally like slamming the brake on, and just had it serviced!!!

I travel the a9 every week and l have no problem because l drive with patience and at the correct speed

40mph 64km/h for heavy trucks would be terrible. No wonder four wheelers do stupid things out of frustration. A speed differential of 20mph will do that.

Was travelling on this road in September, I don't like this side of Scotland, scenery is deed also a very dangerous road especially when it's teeming with rain

The A9 improvements in the early eighties was to enable more lorries carrying steel to Ardersier and Nigg Oil rig yards, so more more rigs built, more revenues, more tens of billions of tax pounds go to Westminster to pay for ‘other’ projects; channel tunnel, M25 etc. Same old story. Only effort to upgrade has now been undertaken this time by a Scottish government. Never let your neighbour run your affairs..