– I got kicked and completely freaked out. All in all, I have to say I was lucky, adds Brå Newspaper address.
The ski king has passed through Østerdalen many times and is therefore very familiar with National Highway 3. On Friday 18 November he was returning home to Byåsen Trondheim on what he thought would be a decent haul route.
Double grip on the steering wheel
He says driving conditions were good and he felt peace and no danger when he got behind the wheel of his new car.
Within seconds the situation was reversed. After a bang, the car starts shaking. Hesitate to hold the steering wheel so as not to lose control of the car, before braking and parking the car at a roadside exit.
Then he remembers what happened. The car sustained damage indicating a major collision. The mirror was torn and the driver’s door had several dents. However, the car window wasn’t broken.
– The moose was stone dead
Oddvar Brå believes a combination of luck and the fact that he was driving a brand new car helped avoid the collision without injury.
Quickly connect with other road users. They can tell that the moose has already been removed from the roadway.
– Then let’s call the police. The moose was stone dead, the ski king tells the paper.
Brå experienced something similar on National Highway 3 seven or eight years ago near Åsta in Innlandet. At that moment, a moose came flying through the air after a trailer hit a moose. Brå did not have time to brake, but ran over the moose, which died in the collision. Even then, things went well with the experienced pilot.
Broke the post – won WC gold
Oddvar Brå is listed with 16 individual Norwegian championships and has won five King’s Cups. In the World Cup they have three overall victories and 14 individual victories. From 1968 to 1989, Brå won and competed in five Olympic Games and six World Championships.
During the World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1982, he won gold in the 15 kilometer race. In the relay, gold was won after a dramatic run which ended in Brå breaking his post, before fighting back with a new post and finishing in the same time as Aleksandr Savjalov. Norway and the former Soviet Union thus divided the gold of the World Cup.
