– Here’s enough smoke for my Saturday evening, yes, says car owner Anders Frydenlund. A truck train loaded with eight cars ended up off the road and overturned in the ditch on national road 52 above Hemsedalsfjellet in Vestland county on Saturday afternoon. – They are mostly new cars, and some of them are probably expensive cars. Among other things, I see two large, new, electric BMWs and a Porsche, says car mechanic Frydenlund. Ulukka happened about seven kilometers from the county border between Vestland and Viken. The driver was not injured in the accident. The wagon train was heading west. Have to crane out the cars First, the cars that were on the “second floor” must be lifted off with a crane. Once this has been done, the car lane on the “ground floor” must be firmly secured with straps before the wagon train can be recovered from the ditch. – The cars at the bottom won’t get me out, so they have to stand on the trailer when we salvage, says Frydenlund. Anders Frydenlund, car salvager at Vangsgutadn. Photo: Jan Christian Jerving He reckons it will be midnight before they finish. – The road will probably have to be closed completely when the wagon train itself is to get back on the road. But first we have to lift off the cars at the top level, and then I reckon we’ll be able to keep the one lane open, says Frydenlund. He said that some of the cars on the loading platform have been damaged. Photo: Jan Christian Jerving Big cleaning job – There is no leak from the car and no injuries reported, says Håkon Myking in the fire service. The police received a report about the overturn at 15.34. There is a wide road in the town and usually a yellow median strip, but on a stretch of a couple of hundred meters the asphalt is “milled down”, so that the surface resembles gravel. For now, one road is closed and there is manual routing past the site.
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Truck loaded with eight cars overturned on Hemsedalsfjellet – challenging recovery job – news Vestland
