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The incident occurred shortly before 0500 hours.
According to the police, a truck headed for the central corridor and took a lamppost on the E18 in the direction of Oslo, near Kjellstad in Lier.
The queues affected morning traffic to Oslo, and on Monday afternoon the queues are still long. They have also marked several other roads in the Drammen district.
The rescue of the truck took several hours. On Monday afternoon the repair work of the protective barrier begins.
Photo: AutoAssistance
Waiting for two open fields on Tuesday morning
Shortly before 2pm, a southbound field was opened, which also had to be closed in connection with salvage work.
– Traffic continues as usual. For the moment, things are also going well in the north, but the left field will be closed until tonight because the guardrail will be repaired, the traffic operator in Vegtrafikksentralen, Anniken Island, tells NRK.
Ask all travelers with alternative routes to use them.
– Traffic will not be normal again today, but if they do what they intended, the guardrail will be repaired again tonight. So I hope they can take two open courses again tomorrow morning.
– How often are there such long lines on the E18 for so many hours?
– It’s very weird. But now there were many unfortunate circumstances here. He carried a lamppost with him, from which he had to remove the power. Then they had to seize firefighters to get rid of the railing that had run out of the truck, Iceland explains.
Here is the queue on the highway bridge in Drammen.
Photo: NRK tips
The truck had to be insured
The company that rescued the truck stated early on that the work would take a long time.
“This will take hours,” Espen Arntzen at Autoassistance auto salvage company told Drammens Tidende Monday morning.
He told the newspaper that before the truck could be rescued, it had to be secured so that it would not tip over when the railing was cut. Arntzen told NRK that the fire service assisted in the rescue work of the truck.
The police report that the truck driver has blown up the legal value and that the person in question is being reported for driving under the influence of alcohol.
There are also queues at E134 as a result of the handover at E18.
Photo: Tipser
