Elderly A9 collision victim is named

Police have named the elderly woman who died following a horrific collision between a bus and a car on the notorious A9 as 96-year-old Connie Jennings from West Yorkshire.

The woman was a passenger in a red Maxda CX5, which collided with a white D & E coach on the southbound dual carriageway stretch of the Perth to Inverness road near to Murthly on Friday morning.

Firefighters used cutting equipment to free her from the vehicle and she was then taken to Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, by ambulance.

However, police have subsequently revealed she sadly died from her injuries.

The driver of the car, a woman aged in her sixties, did not sustain lifethreatening injuries but was also taken to hospital for treatment.

A spokesperson for Police Scotland said: “At 10.15am on Friday, emergency services attended a road traffic collision on the A9 between Murthly and Bankfoot.

“The collision, which involved a red Mazda CX5 and a white D&E Coaches’ single decker bus, occurred on the dual carriageway section of the A9 near to Murthly.

“The bus was stopped in lane one of the southbound dual carriageway behind a second D & E Coaches bus at the time of the incident,” added the police spokesperson.

“Both the driver and passenger of the Mazda were taken to Ninewells Hospital, where sadly the passenger, a 96 year-old woman, died as a result of injuries sustained in the collision.

“The driver, a woman in her sixties, did not sustain life-threatening injuries but was taken to hospital for treatment.”