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It was Marie Myrset Skinnemoen (20) from the municipality of Lier who died, police said in a press release. The name is released in consultation with family members.
Police are investigating the traffic accident, which was a collision between a truck and a car.
Crisis team
Police write in a press release that they have conducted all necessary investigations at the crash site and that further investigation steps will be technical vehicle investigations and interrogations of the parties involved.
Lier Township Mayor Gunn Cecilie Ringdal (H) tells Dagbladet that the Township’s psychosocial crisis team was connected to the case last night.
– They have a special competence to serve people in crisis. It is up to the family to decide if they want to take advantage of the offer, Ringdal tells Dagbladet.
– Leave your mark
She describes the accident as terribly sad and tragic.
– When a person is taken away in a traffic accident, it is completely incomprehensible to everyone, especially family members, he says and adds that his thoughts now go first and foremost to the relatives of the 20-year-old girl.
– She was an active girl who has participated in various teams and associations, so it is clear that this leaves a mark. I know more young people will need to be together in any way they can after this, says the mayor.
Ringdal tells Drammens Tidende that he has been informed that the municipality’s emergency services have contacted the psychosocial crisis team, which has offered assistance to relatives.
FOLLOW THE DRIVER: Union leader of the Norwegian Truck Owners Association, Tore Velten. Photo: Birgitte Iversen / NTB
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Help the driver
Managing Director of Tamnes Transport AS and union leader for the Norwegian Truck Owners Association, Tore Velten, has spoken to the truck driver in the fatal accident. You are bound by a duty of confidentiality, but you can generally say that the person in question will be followed up.
– We will assist with the help that the person needs, either as an interlocutor, partners or colleague. We will also help with practical purposes, such as transporting cargo and offering consular assistance, he tells Dagbladet.
Velten even spoke to the driver when he picked it up on Thursday.
Managing Director Even Toth of Toth Transport AS tells Dagbladet that things are going well with the colleague.
– Okay, and came out of the accident without physical injuries, but mental. Of course, he is affected by what happened, he says.
– Long minutes
Toth tells Østlendingen that the driver, while performing first aid at the scene, experienced the minutes as the longest of his life.
– It was snowy, but according to him, decent driving conditions. He did not experience it as slippery and tried to drive into the ditch to avoid the collision, but the oncoming car must have turned 180 degrees, he tells the local newspaper.
Toth also emphasizes to Dagbladet that the colleague will get the help he needs.
– Yesterday he sent two companions from here. They will meet him and travel with him home again.
– Narrow road
Mayor Even Moen (Sp) in the municipality of Stor-Elvdal tells Dagbladet that he believes further maintenance of the road on which the accident occurred is necessary.
– I offer my condolences to my immediate family. We have no life to lose on Highway 3, Moen says, and continues.
– It is a road with a narrow width, characterized by a lot of heavy transport. In the last 15 years, something has happened with the broad release, but it is slow and there are few improvements at a time.
