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The first proper snowfall of the year can present problems. Why is it almost always like this?

Snow, Norwegians and traffic. A combination that often leads to collisions and trouble on the roads. – There will probably be a number of dents, says psychologist and researcher at the Department of Transport Economics.

Traffic accidents and more or less chaotic conditions are a tradition when the first snow of autumn appears. Here from Maridalen in November 2016.

“The snow came – chaos as usual”, wrote Aftenposten in November 2004. By then the E6 at Vintebro had been closed.

«The whole of Greater Oslo was on the ice. Veivesenet despairs over the snow “, Aftenposten’s readers could read in the newspaper in January 1965.

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