A man in his 20s has been confirmed dead after a traffic accident in Larvik on Tuesday evening. The car is said to have driven off the road and landed in a field, according to the police.
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The police confirmed that the man had died at 00:30 on Wednesday night. Relatives have been notified.
The death is number 80 on the list of traffic fatalities so far this year. This means that as many people have died in traffic this year as in the whole of 2021. Just since May, 56 people have died in traffic in Norway.
The police first received information about the crash in Larvik at 22:10 on Tuesday evening. One person was trapped after the accident, and he was eventually taken out of the car.
– Life-saving first aid was started on the spot. An air ambulance was requested and all emergency services moved out. Eventually it was unfortunately established that life could not be saved, says operations manager Erik Ullhaug Olsen to VG.
The man was pronounced dead by a doctor at about a quarter past eleven on Tuesday evening. He was the only one in the car, and it does not appear that there were others involved in the accident, according to Olsen.
–Accident team on site
Pictures from the scene show that the car is some distance from the road.
Ullhaug says it appears that the car drove off the road, overturned and landed in a field.
– We have questioned those who have come to the scene. Forensic technicians from the police and the National Road Administration’s accident team are on the scene and working now, he says.
The road remained closed for several hours. At 03:14 on Wednesday night, the police report on Twitter that the police and the accident team have finished on the scene, and that the road has been cleared and is open again.
The police are currently not aware of whether they have any witnesses to the incident itself, but it does not appear that there were others involved in the accident, according to Ullhaug.
Single accidents account for over 30 of the traffic deaths, and are the most dominant in the statistics on traffic deaths.
Road director Ingrid Dahl Hovland has also drawn forward that there have been an unusually high number of serious motorcycle accidents this year.
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