Two meters deep sinkhole on E4 – Aftonbladet

A huge sinkhole has occurred on the E4 motorway, north of Norrköping.

According to P4 Östergötland will slukhålet be two meters deep.

The lane is muted and long queues should have been formed.

Shortly before 16 o’clock, reports came from several motorists that the land should have given way in the southbound lane at the height of the exit for Kolmarden.

– There are many motorists who have called us, says Thomas Agnevik, press spokesman at the Östergötland police.

The queues are long on E4 south, according P4 Norrköping.

– It’s holiday traffic and I would guess that there are long

The long queues.

Police: “Stay not to look at the hole “

The hole should be one and a half meters in diameter and two meters deep, and so far the police do not know how the hole has occurred.

– Right now we’re working on that no one should suffer and go down the hole. I would also urge those running in the northbound direction that does not stop to look. It can lead to accidents, says Thomas Agnevik.

Emelie Mattsson ran at 17:15 pm by slukhålet on the way to Gothenburg. She had read about it at Aftonbladet.

– We drove very slowly past, I felt not that the queues were so long, she says.

Fortunately, all drivers managed to avoid hole.

– It was so large that it probably had been dead stop if you drove into it, she says.

“sinkhole unusual”

Bodil Sonesson the Swedish Transport Administration’s press office says to Aftonbladet that authority entrepreneur is on the way to the scene to fill the hole.

– Repair work is expected to take a few hours during the night, she says at 18:45 o’clock.

Earlier this year, reported SVT if a sinkhole in Bjurholm. When adopted thaw be the explanation behind it several meters deep hole in the asphalt.