{"id":375426,"date":"2026-01-17T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375426\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:44:15","slug":"man-20-dies-after-crash-between-van-and-lorry-on-a9-in-the-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375426\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 20, dies after crash between van and lorry on A9 in the Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died following a crash involving a van and a recovery lorry on the A9.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened on the northbound carriageway at around 11.50am on Friday, near Dalnaspidal, approximately 2.5 miles south of Dalwhinnie.<\/p>\n<p>It involved a white Mercedes Sprinter van and a recovery lorry.<\/p>\n<p>A 20-year-old man, who was a passenger in the van, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old male driver of the van was assessed by ambulance crews for minor injuries. No one else was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The A9 was closed for over nine hours while investigations were carried out and reopened at around 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Mike Guild, of the Tayside Road Policing Unit, said: \u201cOur thoughts are with the family and friends of the man who has died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur enquiries remain ongoing to establish the full circumstances and I would urge anyone who may have information or dashcam footage from the area to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can call 101, quoting reference 1282 of 16 January.\u201d<\/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=\"nofollow 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.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died following a crash involving a van and a recovery lorry on the A9. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-375426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}