At 4 p.m., Sør-Vest police district – which mainly covers Rogaland county – reported two traffic accidents. In both accidents, cars ran off the road, but luckily no one was injured.
Now the police are warning against what the public has described as “very slippery” driving.
– It is confirmed by a colleague who came driving from the south: It is very slippery in the south of the county, so people should reduce their speed, says operations manager Steinar Knudsen to Dagbladet.
Plus degrees
In the afternoon, it will be a few plus degrees throughout most of the densely built-up places in Rogaland. Knudsen warns that this may give the wrong impression of the driving conditions.
– It may look mild, but people have to take into account that the rain can be supercooled when it hits the ground, he says.
The operations manager expects the driving conditions to get worse and worse throughout the evening.
Four cars
• At 16.15, the emergency services were dispatched after a car with three people drove off the road and into a rock wall at Lysevatnet in Eigersund municipality.
– They appear unharmed. Traffic flows past in one lane, very slippery on the spot, the police sign X.
• The emergency services responded at 3.50pm to an accident involving four cars, at Spjutavatnet on Rennesøy in Stavanger municipality.
ACCIDENT LOCATION: E18 at Kjellstad outside Drammen. Photo: Norwegian Public Roads Administration Show more
– Two have collided head-on, and two have driven off the road, the police sign X.
They add that the place is mirror-smooth.
A total of five people were involved in the collision, but no one was injured, according to the police.
More accidents
There have also been traffic accidents elsewhere in the country this afternoon:
• 16.35 reported South-East police district that two cars had collided head-on in Ivar Aasen’s road in Hønefoss.
– It doesn’t look like there are any injuries, and those involved are being examined by paramedics, the police write.
• At 16.15 a car drove off the road on the E6 at the Øyer tunnel in Solør. according to Inland police district no one was injured.
• At 2.20pm, six cars were involved in a chain collision on the E18 at Kjellstad outside Drammen. One person was sent to the emergency room for a check, but did not appear to be injured.
The police believe low sun may have played a role in the accident, they write X.
2023-12-25 16:15:39
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