The bus hit the car driven by a policeman before the descent – Aftenposten

– There was a collision between the bus and a passenger car just ahead of the bus ran off the road. This car was run by a police officer from Aalesund police, confirming the acting prosecuting leader Elin Drønnen by police in western Norway.

The person was not in service. Police have yet considered the question of impartiality and provisionally decided that investigators from Kristiansund will make the central questioning in the case. Prosecutors will later decide whether there will be appointed a set Police in the case.

– The detailed sequence of events we do not want to say anything about before these interrogations are conducted, informs Drønnen Aftenposten.

One killed and 14 injured in bus accident in western Norway

Conducts witnesses and technical research

police in western Norway has now completed the first phase of the investigation. It’s made crime scene investigation, to gather evidence and immediate examination of witnesses on the spot after the accident in which a Ukrainian citizen was killed.

Accident Group to NPRA has also conducted surveys on site. Sunday ongoing tactical investigation in the case, including questioning of witnesses implicated. The Accident is also routinely notified of the accident.

– We now receive continuous information about the accident. Will eventually have to make a decision on whether we should investigate this accident nearer, enlightens accident inspector Simen Lian Hansen.

1948 16 people were killed when a bus went off the road and landed in Ranaelva in Dunderlandsdalen north of Mo i Rana. The casualties were all southern-Sami on the way home from a congress in Norwegian Reindriftssamers Association in Tromsø.

1963 Nine rødruss killed in when a bus drove into Logavatnet at Flekkefjord.

1976 Seven people were killed when a tourist bus in came off the road at Ringøy in Hordaland.

1978: Seven people died in a collision between a tourist bus and a trailer in Laerdal in Sogn.

1979 Three people died when a Swedish bus ran off the road at Ørgenvika Buskerud.

1988: 15 people were killed when a Swedish tourist bus ran into a wall in Måbødalen in Eidfjord in Hordaland. The passengers came from Where Backa school in Kista. 12 of the victims were children.

1990: A bus driver and a truck driver were killed when they collided on highway 27 in Eastern Valleys in Hedmark.

1993 An elderly woman was killed and 17 people were injured, one of them seriously, when Valdresekspressen ran off the road on E 16. the accident occurred 4 km south of Nes in Ådal.

1995: Six people were killed when a bus went into the sea from the ferry “Eidfjord” by Hatvik Os in Hordaland in. the reason was that the bus handbrake was not applied.

1995: two people lost their lives when a trailer collided with a bus on the river Orkla in Sor-Trondelag.

2007: Three persons life when a bus skidded off the road and overturned on highway 72 in the Inn Valley in Verdal municipality. The cause of the accident should have been slippery roads.

2013 Two women were killed in a bus accident at Fardal in Sogndal municipality. Two other people were seriously injured and three were minor injuries. It was a Swedish tourist bus and a Norwegian bus that collided.

2013 Three people were killed after two bus accidents in Oslo. One happened in the room, and the other at Carl Berners Plass.

2014: Four people died after a Swiss tourist bus drove off road and into a rock wall on Tornes in Namsskogan in Nord-Trondelag.

the passengers stayed overnight in Valldal

There was a group of Ukrainian tourists in the bus, which was coming down from Trollstigen towards Valldal when the accident occurred. Altogether 16 people were sent to hospital.

The around 20 Ukrainians who came unharmed from the accident was housed on Muritunet rehabilitation center in Valldal center after the accident. They stayed there Saturday night.

– They’ve got both breakfast and lunch. We have organized transport on, we’re just waiting on the green light from the police, says deputy mayor in Norddal Municipality, Per Magnus Berdal, said.

The municipality has been prepared for what happened Saturday could happen. Valldal lies on the road between Trollstigen and Geiranger – with much tourist traffic during the summer.

– The municipality and emergency services aware of, and we have trained to tackle any accidents, says deputy mayor.

Several accidents involving tourist buses in recent years

the accident in Valldal is not the first fatal accident in which foreign tourist buses have been involved. Summer two years ago killed four people when a Swiss tourist bus ran off the road in Namsskogan in Nord-Trondelag.

The accident was the eighth descent by bus as AIBN has investigated. These investigations have revealed that this traffic has potential for improvement – to bring down the number of accidents. The investigations by Namsskogan accident were not able to determine why the bus fell off the road.

– Several factors may indicate fatigue and eventual falling asleep and / or distraction or inattention by the driver, it was stated in the report after the accident.

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