The traffic weekend in midsummer was a dismal trend break in terms of the number of deaths. – We are up to six deaths that have occurred in road traffic and we have had two deaths on the railway. Unfortunately, it is far too much. Compared to last year when we only had one death, we hoped to be able to break that trend, but now it seems that it has gone back, says Bengt Olsson, press manager at the Swedish Transport Agency. Five fatal accidents A 25-year-old motorcycle driver died after he collided head-on with a car outside Huskvarna on Sunday. The motorcycle caught fire after the crash. The two people traveling in the car, a man and a woman, had to be taken to hospital. Two men in their 20s died and three men were injured when a car drove off the road and into a tree on the Onsala peninsula outside Kungsbacka on Saturday evening. In Kiruna, a man overturned his car and died on Saturday. On Midsummer’s Eve, another car overturned on Öland, One person died after the car caught fire. On Friday, one person also died after a car overturned north of Örkelljunga.
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