Brukollapsen happened a few hundred meters north of Bentsrud Crossed in southbound run by Mofjellbekken bridge.
Geoteknikere, construction manager and bruspesialister was on site from 16.30 o’clock. Little by clock 17 lighted construction manager Odd Tandberg NPRA that geo-experts had looked at the area but not concluded anything.
– There is a huge landslide that has passed here. More I do not know, says Tandberg.
How long bridge will be closed, he does not know.
– That’s enough for a while experts can begin to work there. We do not know what happened, other than that there have been major movements in the ground, said Johnsrud just before 16.
Then there was still work to stabilize instead of avoiding human injury.
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At a press conference a little after 17 o’clock tells Deputy Vestfold, Ingunn Foss, that she did not know whether there have been any notice to the event.
– We have had a serious injury to a bridge. We have professionals out there, trying to figure out why it happened. There have been failures in the foundation, explains Foss, who says one of the pillars slid out as a result of the slide.
NPRA can not say anything about when the road can open again.
– We work as long as it is light and do what we can to find the cause. We can confirm that there was a construction machine under the bridge, but pr. now we can not say anything about why it was there, says Foss.
– Cracking and slam
– We can hear it cracking and slam from bruelementene. It is not done to race there.
It was one of the first feedback from freelance photographer Stones Kalberg, who was one of the first who came to the injured bridge on E18.
– All E18 traffic is closed now, and will be directed via Holmestrand, he said.
Both bridges are damaged, but it is the bridge in the southbound during the E18 it is most critical.
– It hangs in the air under there. The second bridge has received large cracks in the foundation, said operations Jan Kristian Johnsrud Vestfold police.
– It’s been a huge landslide
Photographer Kalberg informs that it may appear to be filling material is placed on the ground at one bropilaren may have triggered the damage.
– To me it seems that it has raged from filler, and that it has taken with him the foundation to a bropilar says Kalberg.
According Tønsbergs Blad photographer on site, Per Gilding, there is a large creek that has raged out under the bridge.
– There is also a bulldozer down this creek, says Per Gilding.
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Fears that the bridge will collapse more
Around 45 people, who were in the cars closest breakpoint, was 16 o’clock evacuated minibuses .
Vestfold Police reports that three heavy vehicles, one minibus and several cars remain on site.
– They can not retrieve their cars, because we are afraid that it can breed more, says Johnsrud police.
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– Do not know what has happened
– We do not really know what has happened, and is on track to Helland Bridge now. The message we have received is that there should be ground failure, but we do not know.
It says engineer Odd Tandberg NPRA.
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– Over Happy
Two motorists fire crews spoke with said that they knew the bridge failed during their cars, and they gave full throttle up of dumped on the way south.
– We are overjoyed that there was a car with people in the lower toll when we came to Skjeggestad bridge, said fire champion Erik Loken. He and guard made of fire on Kopstad was first at the scene of the emergency services.
– We saw immediately that both soda pens was affected and got stopped traffic in both directions on E18. When we arrived drove it still cars in the northbound direction, while traffic stood in southbound. A car got smashed sump, but we are very happy that this went so well, said Loken.
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