In the morning took several car accidents rooms around the country because of the slipperiness on the roads. On highway 61 from the Wedge in the direction of Karlstad occurred in four accidents in the space of half an hour, reports the Expressen.
” It has smoked on quite a bit in the morning after a heavy snowfall. It has eased a little now, it has been very, very slippery, ” says Ola Åkesson, civil protection in preparedness in Karlstadsregionen to DN.
the stretch of highway 61 has been seriekrockar and in total there are fourteen vehicles – four trucks and the rest passenger cars. Before noon had police and emergency services on site clearing away most of the time.
– Two of the trucks are still standing. The police redirect the traffic, so it is progressing but a little slow, ” says Ola Åkesson.
According to the SOS Alarm has a person brought to the hospital by ambulance, in addition to there is no more information on personal injury.
the rainfall that dominated the area around Karlstad to move south during the evening and turn to mostly rain. In the coming days, the south of Sweden, to be spared from rain and snow, but during the Friday freezing rain to fall over large parts of northern Sweden. It has done that SMHI is now gone with a class 1 warning.
– Freezing rain means that it is raindrops, which have a temperature during the nollgrader and freezes to ice when they hit the ground, ” says Max Lindberg Stoltz, a meteorologist at SMHI. It may, therefore, become very slippery very quickly, ” he says.
