– The cars are completely smashed. All windows are broken. Children play by the cars and risk injuring themselves, says Jonas Skarhagen from Småland Swedish Radio.
Dumped cars littered the entire kingdom
Outside Jonas Skarhagen’s workplace in Småland stand two of the many abandoned scrap cars in Sweden.
The cars belonged to a suspected car goalkeeper, but the cars have now been administratively de-registered from the road traffic register by the Swedish Transport Agency.
In turn, no one is responsible for the cars.
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For Jonas Skarhagen, this is decidedly problematic.
– We are not allowed to move the vehicles and no one wants to receive them unless we can show that we own them. And you cannot make demands against the owner when the vehicles are not registered to anyone, says Jonas Skarhagen to Sveriges Radio.
He is not a fan of the Swedish Transport Agency choosing to deregister the vehicles.
– This is completely baroque, both that you can do it this way and that the Swedish Transport Agency even allows it, he continues.
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Record number of deregistrations
So far this year, as many as 43,000 vehicles have been removed from the road traffic register by the Swedish Transport Agency.
This is compared to around 10,000 vehicles per year in the last ten years.
Anna Berggrund, department director at the Swedish Transport Agency, tells Sveriges Radio that it is often about cars owned by so-called goalkeepers.
Even if the administrative deregistrations cure the goalkeeper problem, other problems associated with dumped cars arise instead, not least those related to the environment.