The case in summary • After a fatal accident at Sandvika Storsenter, the police have seen an increase in accidents where the driver believes the cause is a technical failure in the car.• One of these incidents occurred on 20 September in the Oslo area, where a young boy was hit. The driver claims technical fault caused the accident.• The car involved in the Sandvika accident, a Volvo XC40, was recalled and modified in 2022 due to a fault that could lead to unexpected acceleration.• Several drivers have reported problems with unexpected acceleration, and these the cases are now taken more seriously after the Sandvika accident.• The police have main hypotheses as to whether the cause of the Sandvika accident is a technical fault on the car or user error.• The car involved in the fatal accident in Sandvika was inspected and modified in accordance with the instructions in the recall, according to Volvo. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAI. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. After the accident at Sandvika shopping centre, in which a man in his 60s died, the police have seen an increase in accidents where the driver believes the cause is a technical failure in the car. – These are accidents that have happened now, right before the Sandvika accident and further back in time, police attorney Kathrine Eilertsen tells news. One of the incidents occurred on 20 September in the Oslo area, where a young boy was hit. The driver claims a technical fault caused the accident. – We carry out technical examinations of the cars in question and we search for answers, says Eilertsen. She emphasizes that it is often about electric cars, but will not comment on car make or model. – A recurring point is sudden acceleration. The car ended up here after driving out from the fourth floor of the Sandvika shopping center parking garage. Photo: Kristoffer Hagen / NTB Have carried out a physical examination of the car The police have formed a picture of what happened in the Sandvika accident, says Eilertsen. – The car must have been about 30 meters into the parking garage, quite straight ahead of where the car ended up driving out without turning, she says and adds: – We know that the driver drove out with the front end first. The Swedish Road Administration has carried out the physical examination of the car, and will now process and compile this information. The car manufacturer, i.e. Volvo, must also extract data from the car. – The police will request access to this information, says Eilertsen. The car drove through guard rails, an iron grate and a solid brick wall. Photo: Hallgeir Braastad / news The accident car previously recalled The car involved in the fatal accident in Sandvika, a Volvo XC40 model, was recalled and modified in 2022. Over 5,000 cars of the same model were recalled by Volvo in 2022 due to a fault that could to unexpected acceleration. Previously, Volvo has said that no deviations were discovered with this car when it was at the workshop in connection with the recall. – The car was in the workshop in June 2022 and the information in our systems shows that the car was inspected and modified in accordance with the instructions in the recall, wrote the communications manager at Volvo, Erik Trosby, in an email to news. The police’s main hypotheses about the cause of the Sandvika accident are a technical fault with the car or user error. Photo: Hallgeir Braastad Drivers talk about problems with acceleration In September, Hanne Hatleberg Nielsen in Drammen experienced that she lost control of the car. The car accelerated and hit a kerb, before falling off the edge. Nielsen tells news that it is only after the accident in Sandvika that they have been taken seriously by the police and Volvo. A few days after the Sandvika accident, a motorist crashed into a concrete block in a garage in Kolbotn. According to Østlandets Blad, this is a car of the same type as the car in Sandvika. This car has also been submitted for technical examinations. In January, Åsane Tidende wrote about a woman, in her late 50s, who claimed that her car accelerated by itself when she collided with another car in Bergen. According to police attorney Andreas Foxen Haldorsen, the woman was driving a Volvo XC60. – There was no suspicion of a technical error and no technical investigations were carried out in the case, writes Haldorsen in an e-mail to news. Published 15.10.2024, at 10.45 Updated 15.10.2024, at 10.46
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The police are investigating several cars for technical faults – Greater Oslo
