Hampus is described as technical, smart and helpful. He did not reach the age of 24, but had already started a company together with a childhood friend. In mid-December, they were hired by a subcontractor to SCA to trample up a winter road. For an as yet unknown reason, the ice that Hampus was driving on broke and Hampus drowned.
Told him to be careful
Hampus was at his parents’ house on Lucia night and had dinner and talked about the job that would be his last. Peter and Kristin Jakobsson asked him to be careful and told about an incident several years ago, when a person died when a ski machine went through the ice on a bog in Borgafjäll.
Two days later, Hampus had a similar accident, and according to Peter Jakobsson, the information to his son may have been lost.
– He would never have driven there if he knew there was a pond there, he says.
Hope the investigators get help
The family hopes that the investigators will get help from people with experience in building winter roads, something that Hampus had little experience with, according to Peter Jakobsson.
The parents would also like to have contact with specialists who have knowledge of this type of work and legal processes.
– I hope that everyone can listen to how quickly and wrong things can go if you don’t perhaps make careful preparations before you send such young boys out on dangerous jobs, says Peter Jakobsson.
SCA declines to comment
SCA does not want to comment further on either its own investigation or the official investigations that are underway. SCA will involve both internal and external experts in its own investigation.
Will you bring in someone who is an expert on winter roads?
– I cannot say exactly what skills they have at the moment, says Robert Östholm, press manager at SCA.