The police now have control over the man, says operations manager Tom Einar Gausdal in the Agder police district. They received a report of the accident at around 1.40pm. – And while we sent resources to the scene, several calls came from the same area from motorists who had ended up in a queue after the accident. They said that a man tried to get into cars on the spot, says Gausdal. Gausdal says the police took it as if he was trying to steal cars in order to flee the scene. – We think the man has been involved in the traffic accident and has tried to flee the scene, he says. At 15.15 the police inform that the man has been arrested and charged with threats. The cars that were involved in the accident on the E18 have now been collected by car salvagers. Photo: Leif Dalen / news Jumped on the bonnet VG has been in contact with witnesses who say that the man jumped on the bonnet of their car, squatted down and stared at them through the windscreen. – We saw people out on the road. Suddenly we see a man trying to get into the car in front of us, says the eyewitness. When he didn’t get into it, he went on to their car and thus jumped onto the hood. Traffic was at a standstill for a while after the accident, which happened at around 1.30pm on Sunday. Knowledge of the police The accident is said to be a rear-end collision. The man who behaved threateningly must have driven his car into the car in front of him. Police Superintendent Bernt Skjeggedal tells news on Sunday evening that the man who is now charged with threats is known to the police. He is at the hospital in Arendal on Sunday evening to take routine blood tests. Armed police According to Fædrelandsvennen, orders were given to be armed in connection with the call-out. There was still a lot of police at the scene at 3 p.m. There was a complete standstill in traffic after the accident. A total of four people were involved, and all were sent by ambulance to Sørlandet Hospital. No one should be seriously injured. Just after 3 p.m., both cars were removed and traffic flowed as normal. Wreckage remains at the twisted guardrail after the traffic accident in which four people were involved. Photo: Leif Dalen / news
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