– He is having a very hard time – Greater Oslo

It was on Sunday that Trond Jensen was out with the sailboat on which he spent much of his retirement. But outside Langøya in Asker, the sailing trip ended fatally when a cabin cruiser ran into the boat. Jensen died quickly after the collision, and soon after the sailboat sank. A man in his 50s is charged with negligently causing the death of another person after the accident. – He is having a very hard time, and is very affected by the accident, says Ann Johnsen, who has been appointed as the accused man’s defender, to news on Tuesday afternoon. The man was physically unharmed from the accident, but is being followed up by the municipality’s psychosocial emergency team. CABINCRUISER: The police are carrying out technical examinations of the cabin cruiser that was involved in the accident. Photo: NTB Cooperating with the police Johnsen says that the accused man is cooperating with the police pending further questioning. He has been questioned once, right after the accident on Sunday. – I don’t think it is right for me to go into the course of events or his explanation as long as there is an ongoing investigation by the police, she says. It is not known which county the accused man is from. Sailboat at a depth of 70 meters The police still do not know what caused the accident, and are carrying out technical investigations. They have not decided whether they will retrieve the sailboat from the depths – according to the police, the place where it sank should be 70 meters deep. EMERGENCY AGENCY: There was a large call for emergency services in the area after the accident. Photo: Vekst media The police want to get in touch with boaters who were in the area on Sunday between 1.30pm and 2.30pm. – On radar images from the sea traffic center in Horten, we see that there were several boats nearby and the police now want to get in touch with people who were on board these boats, even if they did not see the collision, says police attorney in the Oslo police district, Tone Bysting . – Relatives are taking it very hard. Jensen was a keen sailor and wrote a blog about his sailboat and life at sea, among other things. – All next of kin have been notified and they are taking it very seriously. They are collected. This came upon them suddenly, it is an unexpected event, said the head of crime at the Oslo police station, Johan Jahr, on Sunday. The next of kin are looked after by the local crisis team, as well as family and friends, the police say. DIED: 75-year-old Trond Jensen was a keen sailor. On Sunday, he died in a boat accident in the Oslofjord. Photo: Private Published 26.06.2024, at 15.31



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