On the E16 in Voss, there were two accidents in a short time on a slippery road.
First, the West police district received a report at 11.33 that a car had driven into the guardrail on the E16 in Haugsvik.
– No injuries and the car is off the road. We do not move out because there is no obstacle to the traffic. Reported very slippery road at the scene, operations manager Stein Rune Øyjordsbakken Halleraker writes in the police log.
The police then received a report at 12.06 that a new car had driven into the guardrail in the same area in Voss.
– The driver may have suffered some injuries, but was conscious and alert. Therefore, an ambulance is also sent to the scene, writes Halleraker to the press.
Here, the car is partly an obstacle to traffic.
Downhill runs at the same location
Also in Bø in Telemark, a person was slightly injured in a traffic accident on a slippery road. The South East Police District reported the accident at 12.11 on Sunday.
Around ten minutes later, they reported a car that had hit a post on a slippery road in Horten. No one was injured in the incident.
At 12.47 the police report another accident on the same road in Horten, but without injuries.
There have also been two downhill runs at the same place in Eidsberg in Østfold on Sunday. Slippery roads are also reported here, but no one has been injured.
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– The hypothermia can come quickly
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute has issued an ice warning due to a change to mild weather on Sunday, which could lead to ice on snowy roads. There is also a danger of ice due to supercooled rain freezing on cold ground.
Meteorologist on duty at the Meteorological Institute Bente Wahl says VG that the roads can become slippery before you know it.
– The hypothermia can come quickly. Even if you think that things are going well here, suddenly the road is sub-freezing. And then it can be smooth as soap, she says.
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