Two dead after violent crash with police car
Published: 29 Oct 12 07:55 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/44102/20121029/
Two people in their twenties are dead after a head-on car crash with a police car in eastern Sweden on Sunday night, with rescue services pointing to icy roads as the likely cause of the crash.
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“There was ice on the road. The cars have approached from opposite directions and one car has slid,” explained Mårten Eskilsson of the Eskilstuna and Strängnäs emergency services to the Expressen newspaper.
A 26-year-old woman from Strängnäs and 28-year-old man from Linköping died in the crash.
“The car caught fire and two people died, but we don’t know yet whether it was the collision or the fire that caused their death,” said Mikael Thörn of the local police.
The police officers had minor injuries and were taken to hospital.
“They were conscious when the emergency services arrived on the scene. They are shocked, of course, but it appears as if their injuries are minor,” Thörn told the paper.
The two victims of the accident are reported to have lost control of their car on the slippery road, skidding onto the opposite side of the street and colliding with the police car.
The officers, who were on their way back to the station to finish their shift, were unable to avoid the oncoming car as they were passing under a bridge.
“It’s sad when this happens. Everyone at the police station finds it tough,” said Thörn to the paper.
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If the environmental activists gets as they want - banning studded winter tires - more people WILL die. A studded tire is the ONLY tire of any use at all on pure ice.
Environmentalists? what are you talking about man?
Driving around with studded tires give people lungcancer.
Normal winter tires are good for most conditions. If everybody in Norrland wants to use studded tires that is fine for me but in and around the big cities they should be banned, especially when 4 months the roads are snow free.
They already ARE banned between april 16 and to the last of september! YOU drive on pure ice, throw in some rain on it as well, with non-studded tires and we'll see how far you'll come. Very many people in Sweden are in NEED of the car, they simply don't have any other option of transport.
So the debate is going to be based upon lies, is it? Studded tires is NOT banned in Norway but allowed between 1 november and 15 april. In Nordland, Troms and Finnmark you're allowed to use studded tires already from 15 oktober to 1 may.
So true, whether they have studded tyres or not.
Of the accident, speed as such is not mentioned in the article, but it appears to have taken place on the police car's side of the road, and the police were not chasing anyone, but on their way back to base.
There is no mention of whether the road is straight or not, nor whether either car was equipped with winter wheels, so one must, on the face of it, say on here that it just looks like a tragic accident with no recriminations on anyone without further evidence.
always sad to hear young people losing their lives......
oh i do not trust the swedish police they are totally irresponsible