The police reported at 5.30pm on Friday about a bus that had blown off the road near Fokstugu in Dovre.
Operations manager Stig Folstad Hansen said they received a message that the bus had blown from a northbound direction to a southbound direction.
The bus must have stood with all its wheels in the ditch.
– There are 22 people on board, no injuries and it is warm in the bus, said Folstad Hansen at 5.30pm.
At 18.30 the police reported that all the passengers had been picked up by another bus and driven to Dombås.
There are slippery roads at Fokstugu.
Photo: Screenshot / Norwegian Road Administration
On the way to Trondheim
The bus is a double-decker from Vy and was on its way from Lillehammer to Trondheim.
– They have already been transported to Dombås and we will also get them on the train to Trondheim, where the bus was on its way, says press officer Siv Egger Westin in VY.
The bus driver is also doing well, she says.
– He is also taken care of to get on.
Westin does not know what the condition of the bus is, but the bus should be salvaged.
She says that Vy follows up the customers afterwards with a view to possible compensation.
E6 over Dovre closed
The road is now closed. It is unknown when the road can be reopened.
The road is the main thoroughfare for those coming from Gudbrandsdalen, Romsdalen or Stryn and going on up to Trondheim.
It is slippery on the spot, and the wind is a challenge, says traffic operator Christofa Kei Nilsen at Vegtrafikksentralen East.
– We have been notified that it must be closed because it is a very slippery road, so we have initially sent a litter truck with our contractor, then an assessment will be made when they are up on the mountain and get an overview , she says.
In this area, the bus is said to have been blown off the road, according to the police.
2024-03-01 18:29:18
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