On Monday afternoon, a lorry and two cars collided on national highway 80 between Fauske and Bodø. A total of four people were involved. Both the ambulance, police and rescue helicopter moved out. 54-year-old Ingrid Margrethe Nordhei from Bodø died in the collision. She was pronounced dead at the scene by a doctor shortly after the accident, the police said. – We are completely devastated Her husband Arne Kristian Nordhei has given news permission to publish the name. In a post on Facebook, he writes that she was alone in the car when she died in the collision on Kistrand. – It is unbearable, and we are completely devastated, he writes. He writes that Ingrid was so important to so many. There are many who have now lost one of their very best and dearest friends. – Dear, dear Ingrid, the love of my heart. You are now gone, but still everywhere, he concludes. He writes that they are looked after by close family, friends, employers and crisis teams, but that the family will need time. – It is a bottomless sorrow. The contrasts are so great. We live in a house where she is everywhere, and here we will mourn her. But we know that we will get out of this somehow, I want to brag about the crisis team in Bodø, who have been absolutely fantastic. If they hadn’t come on the field here now, we wouldn’t have fixed it, says Arne Kristian Nordhei to news. – Dear, dear Ingrid, the love of my heart. You are now gone, but still everywhere, he concludes the post. The investigation continues Police attorney in the Nordland police district, Stian Pedersen Mojlanen, told news on Tuesday that the investigation so far indicates that Nordheim’s car has crossed into the opposite lane. – What the investigation indicates so far is that a car has crossed into the oncoming lane and collided with a trailer. The person who died was the driver of the car. Following the collision, a car behind drove into the accident itself. The police will now try to find out why this has happened, and will get help from the accident team of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. There is a 70-zone at the scene of the accident. The road was closed for over five hours while the emergency services worked on the scene. Accident-laden road During the last ten years, four people have been killed in traffic accidents on national highway 80 between Bodø and Fauske. In total, there have been 97 accidents with personal injury on this stretch, according to figures from the Norwegian Road Administration. Fylkesvei 17 on the Kystriksveien there have been 146 accidents recorded in the same period, while Europavei 8 in Troms there have been 90 accidents with injuries to people. On county road 82 in Vesterålen, 66 accidents have been registered. In the last couple of years, there have been two deaths in the area in question, and a major traffic accident with several injuries. A woman in her 50s lost her life in a traffic accident in June 2022. A young man died after a run-off in December 2022. In January this year, three people were sent to hospital after a major traffic accident with several injuries on the same road. The Norwegian Road Administration already wrote in 2009 that the road was bad and prone to accidents. A tunnel was then considered, but found to be too expensive. “The approx. The 5.7 km stretch of national highway 80 between Sandvika and Sagelva has poor curvature. The road bears the mark of being in difficult terrain with the mountain on one side and the railway/sea on the other. The national highway lies together with the railway in the narrow zone between the mountains and the fjord. There is therefore little room for major changes to the route. Tunnel solutions past Sagelva and Kistrand have been considered, but found to be too expensive.”
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Ingrid Margrethe Nordhei died in the traffic accident on national highway 80 near Kistrand between Fauske and Bodø – news Nordland
