Only luck meant that no one was seriously injured when the quick clay landslide split the E6 in two at Stenungsund, north of Gothenburg on the night of Saturday. One of those who ended up in the avalanche is Marko Mijatovic, who tells about the crazy car trip on the night of Saturday. – I finished work at half past two in the morning, got into the car and was on my way out onto the E6. I increased the speed a little, and after a little while I just felt that the car was flying, says Mijatovic in an interview with SVT. – I had no contact with the car. I couldn’t manage. The car eventually ended up in the ditch. After the car flew out, it got dark. Heard screams On the other side of the highway he heard screams. He says he didn’t understand what had happened at first. He wondered if he had driven off the road. – I tried to get out. It didn’t work at first. Then I panicked a bit. Then I pushed hard on the door and then it came loose, he says. When Marko Mijatovic put his feet down, it was in clay. He says it’s hard to say how deep he was. After a while he managed to get up. – It was pitch black and it was pouring rain. I was still in shock. Finally I got out onto the road and started walking. Eventually, fire engines and ambulances arrived. I waved my arms, they stopped and I told them what had happened, says Mijatovic. Back Four cars and a bus drove into the avalanche. The pictures show how dangerous the situation was. Three people ended up in hospital with minor injuries. The condition of the three people who were admitted to hospital is stable, but they are still in hospital. – It is an incredible stroke of luck that it happened at night, says Hanna Sofie Pedersen, head of strategic climate adaptation at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute to Swedish TT. The rescue service has said that several people had to be lifted out of the helicopter. The next day, Marko Mijatovic is back at his restaurant and working again. His elbow is a little sore and he is shaken, but otherwise there are no traces of the shocking experience Marko Mijatovic has been through. – I am still shaken and have a bit of pain here and there. But I’m glad it went the way it did, says Mijatovic.
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