The communal holiday is over for many today, and people will be returning home from cabins, boats and holiday homes. Here you get the latest events across the country. Eastern Norway: All emergency services have attended a traffic accident on the E6 northbound for Rygge airport. Operations manager in the Eastern police district, Finn Håvard Aas, tells news in the East that two cars are said to have been involved, and that there were traffic challenges. – It was a car that drove into the back of another car with a trailer. It seems that everyone is up and running, and the cars have driven on to the exit to fill in the damage report, says Aas. No injuries have been reported, and traffic flows as normal at the site. Emergency services on the way to Vardeveien FV107 near Årum in Fredrikstad. Traffic accident notification. Single accident where a car has run off the road. Unknown extent of damage. The car is on the roof, Vestfold informs: In Lardal in Larvik, a person was trapped after a collision between a tractor and a car on Sunday afternoon. The accident happened on Østsidevegen, just before Gavelstad. The police are on the scene in Lardal. Photo: Fredrik Wiig One person has been confirmed dead after a traffic accident between a car and a tractor in Larvik in Vestfold. Operations manager Erik Gunnerød at the Sør-East police district says that one of the vehicles has crossed into the oncoming lane in a curve on Østsideveien in Lardal near Gavelstad. – This led to a collision which led to the tractor partially coming over the passenger car. There is an elderly man from Vestfold in the car who has died, and the next of kin have been notified. – He was confirmed dead by a doctor in the rescue helicopter who arrived at the scene shortly afterwards. The police report a chain collision at Gulli on the E18 near Barkåker. There are three cars involved in the northbound direction. Two people have been taken to hospital for a check-up, but probably no serious injuries. The police are investigating the course of events. Two of the drivers involved do not have valid driving licences. Bilberger is on site and working to get the road opened. The E-18 Gullitunnelen is now open again in the northbound direction. There has also been a collision between two cars in the northbound lane in Hemtunellen on the E18 in Tønsberg. There must not be serious personal injury. The police report that a person is being checked more closely at the emergency room. Trøndelag: There is a long queue at the ferry terminal at Rørvik in Trøndelag now, at the Flakk-Rørvik ferry connection. – There are many people who have thought about returning home from holiday. Especially from Fosen, so there is a long queue for the ferries, says Erling Drangsholt in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. HOME AGAIN: Several are on their way home from Fosen in Trøndelag after the holidays. Photo: Petter Moen Nilsen / news There are especially long queues at the ferry berth in Rørvik. There, all the fields are filled up and the queue goes up to the county road. Drangsholt estimates the waiting time to be around two hours if you stand at the back. – It is best to have plenty of time if you are going home tonight, he says. Otherwise, traffic flows smoothly in Trøndelag, but you can count on slightly increasing traffic density at Klett coming in from Orkanger, according to Drangsholt. – It is the last Sunday of the public holiday and the weather has been nice, so it is relatively normal for there to be a lot of queues, says CEO of AtB, Grete Fuglem Tennås. She says all the cars in the queue are now down at the ferry berth and that the queue is dissolving. – The crew expects that they will be able to clear the traffic, says Tennås. Western Norway: Fv 79, between Kvanndal and Granviner closed due to traffic accident. Emergency services are on their way. FV 4426 Skrebergvegen near Fjermestad, the road will be temporarily closed for one hour from 1630 due to salvage of an excavator/construction machine. Sørlandet: On Sunday afternoon, the police received a report of a traffic accident on the E39 just west of Mandal by the Skogsfjorden. It must be a motorcycle and a car that have collided. Traffic is at a standstill. Emergency services on their way to the scene. Appears to be a serious accident, according to the Police in Agder on Twitter. Traffic accident in Mandal. Photo: Ronny Blix – It appears to be a serious accident, but I cannot say anything about the sequence of events. Health is working on site and the road traffic center has been notified. It looks at possible alternatives for driving. The road is closed in both directions, says operations manager Lars Hyberg. Northern Norway: A car has driven into a rock wall in Meløy in Nordland. Shouldn’t be a question of serious damage. Those involved have been sent to the local doctor’s office.
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This is how the holiday traffic is today – several serious accidents – news Oslo and Viken – Local news, TV and radio
