We did have a 160 mile detour on our first day in Scotland. We were just 4 miles south of Fort William and our digs on the A82 when we came to a grinding halt behid a queue of traffic, not too far past the Corran Ferry. We slowly worked our way past the cars over the double white lines until we eventually got to the front. A lady had come out of her house and told us that there had been a fatal accident not too far ahead, apparently an overtaking car had hit a biker head on. The road would now be closed for at least 8 hours while an investigation team, that had to come from Glasgow, did their job. The time was not long past 4pm so decision time. We could return to the Corran Ferry and cross and take a loop around the Loch into FW but by the time we got back the queue for the ferry was now at least 4 hours (we heard next day that they ran the ferry all night to clear the backlog). Our only other option was to go back towards Crianlarich, head East through Killin, Kenmore and Aberfeldy and then take the A9 north before cutting West again and coming into FW from the top, a distance of 160 miles. Off we went. We treated it as part of the holiday, it was a lovely evening, the roads were fairly clear and the scenery was fantastic. We eventually arrived at our digs at 9.20pm.
Our thoughts were with the biker who had died and his family who would be receiving the awful, life shattering news which would affect them for the rest of their lives. All we had suffered was a few hours inconvenience and had a 400 mile day.