The victims of the latest fatal accident on the A9 were a top Scottish lawyer’s wife and daughter.
Andrew Houston, 42 and another daughter, Lily, are seriously ill in hospital following the two-car crash close to the Perthshire border on Tuesday evening.
Mr Houston’s wife, Abigail, 42 and daughter Mia, seven, were killed when their car collided with another vehicle, believed to be driven by German tourists.
The identity of the other car’s driver, who also died in the collision between Newtonmore and Kingussie, has not been released.
Mr Houston from Edinburgh, a solicitor advocate at McSporrans Defence Lawyers, his surviving daughter and the other car’s passenger are in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, in a “serious but stable” condition.
Transport Scotland’s environmental report into the £3 billion dualling of the A9 was released on Thursday.
It says the project will reduce the severity of accidents on the road, which saw 53 fatalities between 2001-2010.
The Scottish Government are committed to dual the A9 Perth to Inverness road by 2025 in a project costing around £3 billion.
Campaigners, backed by The Courier, have consistently called for the road to be dualled due to the number of accidents and fatalities it has seen. Transport Scotland’s claims dualling of the A9 Perth to Inverness road would have “major positive effects”.