Driver who died after A9 crash is named

Peter Isted was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee but later died. Picture: Ian Rutherford

THE motorist who died in hospital at the weekend after being injured in a crash on the A9 has been named as Peter Isted, 63, of the Pitlochry area of Perthshire.

He died after his green Land Rover Defender overturned on a southbound section of the dual carriageway, south of Birnam, on Saturday morning. He was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee by ambulance where he later died.

A spokesman for the Tayside Division of Police Scotland said today: “Police Scotland can confirm that a man who died following a road traffic collision on the A9 south of Birnam shortly before midday on Saturday has now been identified. He has been named as 63 year-old Peter Isted of the Pitlochry area.”