Driver critically injured in traffic accident in Skien

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A person has been sent to Ullevål Hospital with serious injuries after a traffic accident in Skien on Sunday evening. The car is on fire, and the road is currently closed.

The accident is said to have occurred at high speed.

Emergency services are on their way to a traffic accident at Fjærekilen outside Skien. The car has started to burn. – It is a passenger car that has driven into a concrete crash barrier. Then there has been a heavy collision where the car has started to burn afterwards, says the duty manager at Sør-Øst 110, Kenneth Brenden, to NRK around 19:15. Only one car and one person are involved. According to the operations manager at Sør-Øst Police Distri…