The emergency services were notified of the accident at 5pm on Monday afternoon. A truck and two cars had collided. A total of four people were involved. Both the ambulance, police and rescue helicopter moved out. – In one vehicle there was a person, a woman in her 50s from Bodø. The person was pronounced dead at the scene by a doctor shortly after the accident occurred, says police prosecutor Stian Mojlanen in the Nordland police district. The woman’s relatives have been notified. The police stated on Monday that it was a head-on collision. The cause of the accident is not clear. The police are investigating the incident. The police are looking at the scene of the accident on national highway 80 near Kistrand, between Bodø and Fauske. Photo: Alexander Kjønsø Karlsen / news There is a 70-zone at the scene of the accident. The road was closed for over five hours while the emergency services worked on the scene. The cause of the head-on collision is not clear. The police will now try to find out what has happened, and will get help from the accident team of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. – We have finished interviewing witnesses, what remains now is the technical investigation at the site, says incident leader, Øystein Stöckel, incident leader at the scene, Øystein Stöckel. Photo: Alexander Kjønsø Karlsen / news Accident-prone road During the last ten years, four people have been killed in traffic accidents on highway 80 between Bodø and Fauske. In total, there have been 97 accidents with personal injury on this stretch, according to figures from the Norwegian Road Administration. Fylkesvei 17 on the Kystriksveien there have been 146 accidents recorded in the same period, while Europavei 8 in Troms there have been 90 accidents with injuries to people. On county road 82 in Vesterålen, 66 accidents have been registered. In the last couple of years, there have been two deaths in the area in question, and a major traffic accident with several injuries. A woman in her 50s lost her life in a traffic accident in June 2022. A young man died after a run-off in December 2022. In January this year, three people were sent to hospital after a major traffic accident with several injuries on the same road. The Norwegian Road Administration already wrote in 2009 that the road was bad and prone to accidents. A tunnel was then considered, but found to be too expensive. “The approx. The 5.7 km stretch of national highway 80 between Sandvika and Sagelva has poor curvature. The road bears the mark of being in difficult terrain with the mountain on one side and the railway/sea on the other. The national highway lies together with the railway in the narrow zone between the mountains and the fjord. There is therefore little room for major changes to the route. Tunnel solutions past Sagelva and Kistrand have been considered, but found to be too expensive.”
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Traffic accident between a car and a lorry on national highway 80 – news Nordland
