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Eastern Norway was hit by a heavy snowfall on Christmas Day. It resulted in slippery roads, slow speeds, various traffic accidents, and hit the streetlights with special force.
– Today we had at least three streetlight collisions. It can be natural when it’s slippery, but it’s not often that we get that many, Operations Manager Svein Walle in the Eastern Police District tells NTB.
By 6 p.m., the Eastern Police had handled more than ten traffic accidents. While on the phone with NTB, there were reports of at least two new accidents. One of them was a motorist who had crashed into a lamp post.
– It went reasonably well on the E18 and E6, but it is on county roads and country roads where it is probably the most difficult. It is natural that it does not go so fast. It’s just asking people to drive according to the conditions – the problem is, it’s a little too smooth, so it gets slippery, Walle says.
– In general, it has gone relatively well, he adds.
The same message is transmitted by the operations center of the Oslo police district, which in addition to the capital is responsible for Asker and Bærum.
– Incredibly, it went well, I think we had a bit of luck since it was the second day of Christmas. There have been little accidents, but nothing that is particularly important, operations manager Svein Christian Lie tells NTB.
– You are now naked on the main roads, the operations manager can report just before 6pm.
The traffic control center can also report a day that has gone better than expected.
– We reached a peak of missions and snow a few hours ago. In the lowlands it rained in many places and it has not frozen. On the E6 around Dal and north towards Minnesund it is still snowing. Traffic flow is going quite well, it has calmed down, traffic operator Mikael Olsen of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration tells VG.
