Kenneth Dahl was going to take the Eckerö line to Åland on Friday morning and was just about to get on the boat at Grisslehamn when one side of the car ramp collapsed on the car in front of them. He tells how the rear end of the car was crushed and that two people were injured. – They carried a man out of the car. Blood poured from his head. After that, a woman came, she was also bleeding and very confused, he says. Ambulance helicopter and emergency services are on site. Kenneth Dahl, who is standing with the car right where the accident occurred, is shaken by the incident. – We are completely shocked. Another second and we would have been under the ramp, he says. Cable may have broken The company’s CEO Tomas Karlsson tells TT that the car tire collapsed during loading. He believes that it may have been a wire or something else in the mechanism that broke. – When the cars were being loaded, something happened to one of the car tire shelves so that it fell down and hit a car that was driving on board. There were two people in the car who were injured. Both people must have been conscious and contactable, according to Karlsson, and they will be taken to hospital. How serious their injuries are is unclear. The ferry will not go on until 15.00 at the earliest, Eckerölinjen states. The article is updated.
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