Snow causes slick roads in southern Sweden
Published: 21 Oct 10 08:12 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/29734/20101021/
The year’s first snowfall has resulted in slippery roads in many parts of southern Sweden, with some areas received up to 10 cenitmetres of wet snow.
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In Vetlanda in southeastern Sweden, a car ended up on its roof after skidding off a slippery road. One person was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Another person was trapped in a vehicle involved in a one-car accident on route 27 between Växjö and Värnamo in south central Sweden, according to police in Jönköping. The accident brought traffic to a standstill for a 12 kilometre stretch between Horda and Bor.
Once traffic loosened up, one person was taken to hospital. According to police, the road near the accident site was extremely slippery.
On route 47 west of Oskarshamn in eastern Sweden, a car slid off the road around 5am, but it remains unclear if anyone was injured.
“It’s snowing and the weather is bad, with wet snow that then freezes,” a spokesperson from the Kalmar police in southern Sweden told TT.
In Skåne in southern Sweden, there were also a number of reports of cars leaving the roads due to slippery conditions, according to the Skånska Dagbladet newspaper.
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Slick definitely has the correct meaning, but perhaps a slightly different context..
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The Local does a great job in general with grammar. I would love to see all the grammar fiends (especially those who are wrong) on here produce perfect Swedish in the time frame the Local has to get the news out for us to read.
Good thought, but as an englishman I can tell you the english online press lacks the standards you recommend :) Many of them don't even seem to possess 'spell-checker' programmes.
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I TOTALLY AGREE with your comments about The Local and am constantly amazed by contributors to comments who just moan and complain about the FREE service that they receive.
In these days of texting, chatboards and sound bites, language is always changing. The use of 'slick', therefore, has a correlation to slick (smooth) racing tyres and is a perfectly acceptable way of describing a smooth road surface. So, put your perfectionist dictionaries away, please, and modernise.
Or, at least, if you cannot resist the urge to correct The Local...do so with some respect for all the work they put in just so you can have your moment.....:)
So the article is entirely correct in its usage of the word.
IMoL