Probably seriously injured after driving out of a car park – Stor-Oslo

A man in his 60s has been confirmed dead after a car drove off the fourth floor of the parking garage at Sandvika shopping center on Monday evening. The police say the incident appears to be a pure accident. The car landed right outside the entrance to the centre. – Fortunately, no one else was injured as a result of the car falling down, even though there were many people outside the centre, says police task leader Anders Rønning. The emergency services went to the car park in Bærum just after 8pm on Monday evening. The car drove out from the fourth floor. Photo: Kristoffer Hagen The man in his 60s was at the shopping center with his relatives. – They were with the man when he got into the car and drove off, says Rønning. Those left behind are looked after by health personnel. OPERATION MANAGER: Anders Rønning is on site. Photo: Zhilwan Manbari / news Thought it was a bomb or an earthquake Mats Grimsæth is a freelance photographer and quickly arrived at the scene. “Many people came out of the center and at first thought it was a bomb, because the whole area slammed and shook,” he says. A witness news has spoken to was at work in a shop close to the accident. He says he thought it was an earthquake at first. – It was incredibly dramatic. Inside the centre, not many people thought it was a car crash and on the public address system we were told to evacuate the centre. When he came out, he spotted the car a few meters away from the entrance. – People wondered where this car came from. But when we looked up there was a hole in the wall, because the car had driven out. There were bricks all over the place, says the witness. IN PLACE: The emergency services are in place. Photo: Mats Grimsæth Don’t know if the car was bolted On at 10pm on Monday evening, the police still haven’t got full clarity on how the accident happened. Task leader Kristian Digranes says the man in his 60s got into the car when it was parked on the fourth floor. He then drove through a wall, before the car hit the ground below the car park. It has not been established that the car was bolted on, according to the project manager. – We are still working on that on site, says Digranes. The police are still talking to witnesses, and are working to obtain video surveillance from the area. The Swedish Road Administration’s accident team is on the scene. In cooperation with the police, they will investigate why and how the accident occurred. The car drove out from this part of the car park on the fourth floor. Photo: Kristoffer Hagen Shopping center closed Parts of the building stock in the car park are damaged, and this must be secured in a proper manner, the police say. – The area will be cordoned off for a good while in the future due to investigations that will be carried out throughout the evening, the police write. Sandvika shopping center was closed on Monday evening as a result of the accident. It is expected that the center will remain open as normal on Tuesday. Published 23/09/2024, at 20.30 Updated 24.09.2024, at 06.41



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