The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Pedestrian dies after being struck by car on A94 in Perthshire.
EMERGENCY: A94 closed overnight as police investigate collision near Balbeggie
A pedestrian has died after being struck by a car on a Perthshire road.
The crash happened on the A94, just north of Balbeggie, on Sunday.
Emergency services were scrambled to the scene just after 9pm.
The road was closed throughout the night while officers tried to determine how the tragedy happened.
A Police Scotland spokesman confirmed an investigation was under way and a report on the man’s sudden death would be passed to the procurator fiscal’s office in Perth.
The spokesman said: “Road policing officers in Perth and Kinross were called to the A94, just north of Balbeggie, at around 9.10pm on Sunday following a crash which involved a male pedestrian and a Volkswagen Tiguan.
“The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene and the road was closed for eight hours to allow for a crash investigation to take place.”
He added: “Inquiries remain ongoing and a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.”
Details of the victim have yet to be released.
The collision occurred near the Orchard Court Care Home. No one at the facility was available to speak about the accident, with one employee saying staff were unaware of what had happened.
A passerby said: “The road was closed off just at Balbeggie. I could see the flashing lights a wee bit further off.
“At first I thought it was a roadblock for coronavirus, but then I saw an ambulance and I feared the worst.”
Traffic was redirected through the surrounding countryside. The road – usually a busy commuter thoroughfare – was reopened just after 8am.
The A94 is not known as an accident blackspot, although emergency services were called to a one-vehicle crash in the same area in January. They arrived to find a car overturned in a ditch.
Last year a two-vehicle collision forced the closure of the A94 between Scone and Balbeggie.
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At first I thought it was a roadblock for coronavirus, but then I saw an ambulance and I feared the worst