During the extreme cold last week, several hundred cars were stuck in a traffic jam for almost a day on the E22 in Skåne.
In connection with this, the Swedish Transport Agency’s press manager Bengt Olsson said that the chaos was to some extent caused by motorists defying the roadblocks that the police had set up and driving onto the motorway.
– I have not been able to see anywhere that any such incident would have occurred, says Nils Norling, press spokesperson at the police, to Sweden’s Radio Echo.
Blamed the drivers
In connection with the traffic chaos, Bengt Olsson from the Swedish Transport Administration participated in several media.
In P1 Studio Ett, Bengt Olsson was asked why they had not stopped the flow of traffic up the motorway.
– We tried to stop it but it didn’t work, but there were a lot of cars that continued anyway, was the answer from Bengt Olsson.
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The information is not correct
However, the information does not seem to be correct. The Echo asked Nils Norling at the police in the South region to talk to central staff members and go through incident reports to see if there was any basis in the claim.
According to Norling, it would have spread quickly if someone had defied a police cordon, and he cannot find a record of any such incident.
According to Bengt Olsson at the Swedish Transport Administration, the information about motorists defying the roadblocks was unverified third-party information that he passed on.
– If it’s not right, I’ll be responsible for it, says Bengt Olsson to Ekot.
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