A Google Maps glitch has caused chaos after traffic was mistakenly diverted from the A9 to a single-track road between Dunkeld and Pitlochry.<\/p>\n
The issue – which was first noticed on Friday – saw vehicles, including campervans, leave the trunk road and travel through the Perthshire villages of Ballinluig, Tulliemet and Guay.<\/p>\n
On Saturday Transport Scotland posted on X on that Google Maps was falsely reporting the A9 as closed and was recommending an “inconvenient alternate route” when it remained open.<\/p>\n
The problem now appears to be resolved but local residents said the inaccurate information left them worried and, in some cases, unable to leave their homes.<\/p>\n
“People were just doing as Google said but the excessive speed was unbelievable,” Joanne Boyne, who lives in Guay, told BBC Scotland News.<\/p>\n
“Traffic was going in both directions so when cars came to a section where nobody could pass, everyone had to reverse.”<\/p>\n
She said the U163 road is a single-track road with no designated passing places.<\/p>\n
The winding and narrow nature of the road and the overgrown trees and bushes make it unsafe to drive fast.<\/p>\n
But over the weekend, she saw campervans, a large coach and cars with trailers – one towing a boat – all drive down it, some at speeds as fast as 40mph. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Google Maps glitch has caused chaos after traffic was mistakenly diverted from the A9 to a single-track…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-778386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778386","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=778386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}