{"id":9090,"date":"2023-09-24T14:06:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T14:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/24\/landslide-causes-motorway-to-collapse-in-sweden\/"},"modified":"2023-09-24T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T14:06:50","slug":"landslide-causes-motorway-to-collapse-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/24\/landslide-causes-motorway-to-collapse-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslide causes motorway to collapse in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A large chunk of a motorway in southwest Sweden collapsed overnight, causing three people to be taken to hospital with light injuries, police said on Saturday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The landslide damaged the motorway between Sweden\u2019s second-biggest city Gothenburg and Norway\u2019s capital Oslo, near the small town of Stenungsund, around 50 km north of Gothenburg on Sweden\u2019s west coast.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThe hardest hit parts of the landslide area measure around 150 x 100 meters. In total, however, the landslide has affected an area of around 700 x 200 meters,\u201d the Gothenburg Rescue Services said in a statement.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The slide affected around ten vehicles, a wooded area, a business area with a gas station and a fast food restaurant, the rescue services said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cA number of people have been helped out of vehicles in the slide area with the help of fire personnel and a helicopter.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Several cars and one truck had fallen into holes and cracks caused by the landslide, Swedish news agency TT reported.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A rescue services spokesperson told public broadcaster SVT all people in the vehicles had been helped out.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Police said on their website they had launched a probe into whether work at a nearby construction site may have caused the slide.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cIt\u2019s still unclear if there is any connection to blasting\/work at the site and the landslide,\u201d they said. \u201cNo person is currently suspected of a crime.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The rescue services said specially trained staff and search dogs would now search the area, and that further slides could not be ruled out.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large chunk of a motorway in southwest Sweden collapsed overnight, causing three people to be taken to hospital with light injuries, police said on Saturday. The landslide damaged the motorway between Sweden\u2019s second-biggest city Gothenburg and Norway\u2019s capital Oslo, near the small town of Stenungsund, around 50 km north of Gothenburg on Sweden\u2019s west <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}