A couple were taken to hospital yesterday after their caravan overturned on a dual carriageway section of the north’s busiest road.
Emergency services attended the incident, which involved only a car towing a caravan, on the northbound section of the A9 Inverness-Perth road at Findhorn Bridge near Tomatin at about 11.25am.
The road was blocked for about two hours as emergency services dealt with the incident and the vehicles were recovered.
All northbound traffic was diverted via Tomatin.
It is understood that no-one was seriously hurt as a result of the collision and that a man and woman were taken by road ambulance to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness as a precaution.
A dog which was travelling with the couple was also taken with them in the ambulance.
A fire service spokeswoman confirmed that two appliances, one each from Inverness and Carrbridge, were called to assist at the scene, but only the Carrbridge crew attended to make the scene safe.
A caravan could be seen on its side and a black Chevrolet Captiva LS car, which was still attached by tow, was left partially tilting in the air.
The vehicles collided with the central reservation barrier and caused some damage to it as a result, as well as to the front bumper of the car.
The contents of the caravan had shifted to one side and a large battery and two gas canisters appeared to have been taken outside and placed on the road by police and firefighters.
The crash happened close to where a couple died when their Harley-Davidson crashed about four years ago.
Robert Macdonald, 54, and his wife, Valerie, 60, had been returning to Inverness from the Thunder in the Glens rally in Aviemore.
After the crash, motorists criticised the state of the dual carriageway, which they claimed was uneven and bumpy, and work was carried out to resurface the northbound stretch of the road.