The Ukrainian tourist bus hit a passenger car before it went off the road in Valldal More og Romsdal Saturday. A male passenger died and 14 were injured.
– The Crime Scene Investigations show that there has been a collision with the bus and a passenger car ahead. The bus and a passenger have met on the road, and the two vehicles passing each other, there is contact. It ends with the bus drives off the road and overturning, said operations manager Arild Reite by og Romsdal Police VG Sunday morning.
The police was informed about the tourist bus had run off the road by Gudbrandsjuvet clock 16.23 Saturday.
the bus overturned down a slope and landed on the roof. Several people were stuck after the accident.
A total of 41 people on board the bus. 14 of them were injured and sent to respectively Molde Hospital and Ålesund hospital.
Eleven of the injured received minor injuries, two women in respectively 20 and 60 years had moderate injuries, while the condition of the last serious, but stable, lighted Health og Romsdal Saturday.
Communications Director Trine Kvalheim says to VG Sunday morning that there is nothing new about the patients’ status, but the Møre og Romsdal Hospital Trust will come with an update during the day.
Suspect not drink driving
There is no suspicion of drunken driving either the bus driver or the driver of the passenger car, said Reite.
He also confirms that the person who died, was a man who was a passenger in the bus. The man’s age is not known.
NPRA accident During Saturday night and early Sunday morning assisted police technicians at the scene. The work has now been completed and the bus is removed from the site.
Norwegian County Road 63 at Grønning was opened in both directions with full mobility in time 4:05 Saturday night, said Lisbeth Smørholm in Public Roads VG.
– Now we go into an investigation phase of questioning of those involved and investigations, said Reite.
An ambulance passes the roadblock on fylksvei 63 after a bus ran off the road at Gudbrandsjuvet Valldal Saturday.
Photo: Svein Ove EKORNESVÅG / NTB scanpix Witness: – Passengers in shock
Christoper Schonefeld from Valldal arrived at the scene just minutes after the accident. He told VG Saturday on passengers in shock state.
– It came shocked passengers out of the bus In addition there was more damaged outside the bus. Three people jammed said Schonefeld.
He said he and several others went ahead with the rescue efforts immediately after the accident, before the ambulance arrived at the scene shortly after.
Witnesses on site describes the road at the accident site that urge, but the stretch where the accident occurred should be straight and clear.
the Sea King rescue helicopter air ambulances, fire engines and regular ambulances were sent to the site after the accident.
according to NRK came 26 Southern European tourists to the emergency reception center at Valldal school Saturday afternoon.
Valldal is a valley that runs from Storfjorden and ends at Trollstigen in Møre og Romsdal. The stretch is a very popular tourist and summer is the peak season for tourism at Trollstigen.
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