Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Tunnels in Western Norway closed by rockslide: – Large boulders fallen in … – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Ras closes three tunnels E16 in Sogn og Fjordane. The road will also be closed for several days due to the rock slide.

Flenjatunnelen, Gudvanga Tunnel and Stalheim tunnel on E16 at Gudvangen is the closed tunnels, police in Sogn og Fjordane to Dagbladet.

together it should have been four landslides, of which the third blocked the road.

– there are large boulders that have fallen down in the roadway and the road is completely closed, said operations Olaug Holme told Dagbladet.

No one should be injured as a result of the landslide. Two cars are still made of stone, but they parked.

– It’s a very avalanche coming from far up the mountainside. There is a lot of traffic here, but this time was no all, says efforts manage Frank Liestøl NRK.

Liestøl says on the road will now be closed for days due to the slide.

– Coming more all the time

the police have not yet track of exactly how long the road is closed. They were alerted to slide around the clock 17 in the afternoon.

Then according to NTB a motorist who knocked out about the slide . Competent succeed in stopping the car just before the boulders came rushing across the road.

– There are large rocks that rages down. It is at least four blocks in the way, and there’s more to come down all the time, says a man to NRK, located on-site.



– Three ras

Stein landslide happened about approximately one kilometer from Gudvangen towards Voss. NPRA asks travelers to not run through Gudvangen.

The landslide has taken both forests and fields in the area, according to the owner of Gudvangen camping, Lene Hagen. She informs BergensAvisen that went three landslide. First a little, then a larger one. After that it went further large landslide, and then the power went.

According Sogn Avis and Bergens Tidende has collapsed large boulders down in the road, some the size of a passenger car.

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