The truck has cord – overtaking car

The alarm arrived at 1 pm Saturday.

"This is a truck that has received a cable and should go through any lane," Tommy Nyman told police.

Soon after, Nyman announced that he could be in a serious accident.

"It does not look good, the truck collided with a passenger car, but I still have no information about an injury," Nyman said at first.

But it was immediately clear that it was a very serious accident.

"The car must have been passed," says Gunilla Jensen, team manager at SOS Alarm.

The police write on his website: "The truck went to Borås and received a rope, then crossed the central bridge and collided with a meeting car from elsewhere."

Great impact

There was also no clear information on the traffic situation, but the impact is great.

– It can be opened in a file in one direction, but I can not get a clear message about it.

The accident is therefore occurring on Highway 40 in the municipality of Harryda. The truck should have driven in the direction of Landvetter / Borås airport, but had crossed the central rail and blocked the vehicles in both directions.

The Swedish Transport Authority has indicated that traffic is very affected, which probably means that the motorway is turned off.

Police announce that several ambulance units are alerted at the scene of the accident.

Nine alarmed ambulances

SOS Alarm confirms it:

"We have five in front and nine in total are alarmed.One of them is an ambulance helicopter," Gunilla Jensen reports to SOS Alarm.

At 13:35, the police updated information:

– There are serious injuries for those who have left the car. How many people in the car we are not going with, says Nyman.

In addition, two people injured in the truck are injured. These were transported with ambulances to hospitals whose state of damage was unknown.

Witness: Black braces

According to several witnesses, the passenger car should be under the trailer of the truck. A witness says:

"There were black brakes along the road and straight through the center line and on the other side, the truck was in the ditch," said a witness who passed the place.

Nyman also says that it is off the highway in the direction of Gothenburg. Traffic is led by Landvettermotet.

In the direction of Landvetter / Borås, one of the files is opened at 13:35.

The truck needs vector gas from the place of the accident. A heavy carrier calls the place where to lift the truck, police say.

Great impact of traffic

According to the Swedish Transport Agency's forecasts, the traffic will be very hard until 3:30 pm, but it is obvious that it may take longer before the truck is cleared of snow and cleared of mines. # 39; highway.

The rescue service sent a large number of devices to the site.

"We are in place with units from the Mölnlycke, Landvetter, Mölndal and Hindås stations.We are conducting various actions at the scene of the accident," said Peter Zettersten, alarm and management operator at 14. hours.