Around 120 people have been taken to hospital after multiple crashes involving over 100 vehicles in the snowy chaos on E4 and E18.
Axar.az reports that in the accident north of Uppsala at 10 am, about ten vehicles collided on the E4, and 13 people were taken to Akademiska Hospital with minor injuries.
A second accident occurred just before 12 pm on Saturday, an alarm was raised about a large number of vehicles involved in a collision on E18 at Grillby between Enköping and Bålsta. The police have flown drones over the accident site and count 95 involved vehicles.
After the incident 106 people have been transported to healthcare for assessment, says Mikael Köhler, the health and healthcare director in Region Uppsala.
He has no further details on the injury situation, but says that two people are in intensive care. Their condition is stable.
There were a lot of vehicles standing all over the place. I've never seen anything like it in real life," says police spokesperson Stefan Larsson about the drone images from the accident site.