Casualties taken to hospital after A9 crash
Three people were taken to hospital after an accident which closed the region's arterial road for several hoursby the Slochd summit
The A9 was closed for around three hours on Wednesday after the head-on smash at around 1.30pm involving a mobile home and a car.
Both occupants of the car and one person from the mobile home were taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
Their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Police at the scene commented that the occupants of the mobile home, a family of three with a child of around 10 and a Golden Retriever dog, had a particularly lucky escape.
Gas canisters were removed from the mobile home as a precaution.
A Northern Constabulary spokeswoman said thay they were able to reopen one lane of the road "fairly quickly" but was unable to provide times.
Meanwhile as tailbacks stretched to several miles, police and paramedics responded to a medical emergency in a car stuck in the tailback on the northbound carriageway.
