There will be no prosecution over the death of a tragic Auchterarder teenager who was killed when she was hit by at least five cars as she walked along the A9.
The Scottish Crown Office has confirmed that it has concluded its probe into Elli Williams’ death last year and no further action will be taken.
Elli, who would have turned 18 next month, was killed after being hit by several vehicles as she walked alone along the dark and dangerous road.
An exhaustive investigation was carried out by police, in which every vehicle on the road at the time was traced. The report on the accident has rested with the Crown since then.
A spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: ”The procurator fiscal at Perth received a report concerning the death of a 16-year-old girl on the A9 on January 4 2011.
”After full and careful consideration of the facts and circumstances of the death, the procurator fiscal has concluded the investigations and decided that no further action is required.”
Elli’s family remain too upset by the youngster’s death to talk publicly about it.
It remains unclear why Morrison’s Academy pupil Elli was walking on the notorious road shortly after 10pm on the night she died.
The fifth-year student, who had hoped to go to university to study fashion, according to friends, had everything to live for, as she celebrated the birth of a baby sister just five days previously.
What is known is that she became separated from her friends and was hit by cars on the southbound carriageway.
Emergency services could do nothing for her, after arriving at the scene minutes later.
Responding the the Crown Office statement, Inspector Grant Edward, of Tayside Police Road Policing Unit, would only say: ”A report on the full circumstances surrounding the incident was submitted to the procurator fiscal.”
He had previously told The Courier: ”We carried out a thorough and robust investigation into the incident and traced all the vehicles. We completed all of our lines of inquiry and met with the procurator fiscal in Perth, Helen Nisbet, to pass that information on.”
He went on: ”We continued to speak to and support the Williams family and gave them time to grieve. We answered any questions the family had last year. We also had to provide support to some of the motorists involved, who were traumatised, and liaise with the Auchterarder community.”
The eldest of four children, Elli had also been a pupil at the Community School of Auchterarder, where she had been a keen rugby player and worked part-time in a caf in Auchterarder High Street.
Her mother, Cara-Lee, a teacher at Perth High School, said she was a ”wonderful daughter and sister”.
”She will be a huge void in not only my life, but that of her dad, Paul, her brother, Joss, and her sisters, Ines and Eva.”