Signs on the road provide information about the cause of the accident

On Saturday, numerous ambulances were dispatched to the scene of the accident.
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Signs on Rangárvallavegur street at the scene of Saturday’s bus accident provide some clues as to the cause of the accident. The driver and all 26 passengers on the bus were Icelandic and were all taken to hospital with injuries.

“Now we are collecting data and taking reports. We will probably be interviewing people all week. That’s a lot of people,” Jón Gunnar Þórhallsson, police chief in the south, told mbl.is.

Signs on site

Do we know what caused the accident?

“No, but there are natural signs on the ground that suggest this, but we will not announce anything yet. It will be confirmed and so on, and then the whole investigation process will be done,” he says.

So do signs on the street provide certain information?

“Yes,” he says.

Like in a washing machine

No one died in the accident, but as mentioned above, everyone was injured and taken to hospital. He said he had no information about the condition of the people at the time, but the last he knew, their condition was stable.

Þórhallsson says it appears as if the bus rolled a full circle, but adds that this is not entirely confirmed. It is a known phenomenon that people do not wear seatbelts on such buses, and he was asked if this was the case now and if people were being thrown out of their seats on the bus.

“A soft surface, moss, helps here. That helps, but with a rollover like that, it becomes a kind of washing machine in these big buses,” he says.

So the people weren’t wearing seatbelts?

“Anything can happen and we won’t know until we talk to everyone and look at the bus,” he says.