Sweet brother struggles with the snow on Wednesday morning.
Wednesday 3 April at 07:44
Mile-long queues, several accidents and heavy snowfall have affected traffic in southern Sweden over the past 24 hours.
And it will surely never end:
- On the E4 at Vättern – midway between Gothenburg and Stockholm – people have been stuck since 5pm on Tuesday afternoon.
- At 01 am on Wednesday, the queue was almost three miles long.
- It is unclear how many people are affected by the chaos, but it is in any case about “hundreds of cars”, according to the rescue service.
– Here there are mountains along one side and water on the other. The question is why people go out on the road with summer tires when an orange warning is issued, says Bengt Olsson of the Swedish Transport Administration to TV 4.
On Wednesday morning, the authorities ask people to ditch their cars. It will take several hours to get the traffic sorted out:
– I dare not say when it will be released. No sooner than 9 o’clock. This will affect E4 for large parts of the day, says rescue manager Göran Melin to Aftonbladet.
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Several plow trucks are stuck in the queue. Now the rescue service uses tracked vehicles and four-wheelers to free people and vehicles – but the chaos just continues.
– It gets partly better, but then several things happen, says Melin to Expressen.
According to the newspaper, there are so many incidents that the police do not have the capacity to respond to everything:
– There are so many accidents, police officer Dick Steisjö sums up.
It was extra dramatic for a family stuck near Vistakulle.
The one-year-old in the car became acutely ill – and the ambulance did not arrive. The rescue service ended up sending a four-wheeler to pick them up.
– The child and the mother were transported to a place where the ambulance could meet, says Mikael Ehne in the police to Svenska Dagbladet.
