Both emergency services, police and ambulance were called to the place where a person was taken to hospital, but how the accident occurred is still unknown.

"The driver was both alert and contactable," says Ronnie Lindberg, internal commander at the rescue service.

The road was closed for several hours as the truck went off the road and lay across both roadways.

- It has also rolled out ore over the road, he says.

Eventually, the truck trailer could be towed and one lane opened to traffic, but the accident caused major damage to the road.

"The driver has done pretty well"

Anders Engström is a substitute traffic manager at Kaunis Iron but usually works as a chauffeur. He was the one who was there when the accident happened this morning:

- The driver has done well and is now at the health center in Vittangi. I talked to him after the accident, he says.

The company does not yet know why the accident occurred.

- It may have been frostbite but we don't know. This is a stretch of the road that is fine, he says, noting that it is not the curve where six young people perished last winter but a few miles further north along route 395.

"The whole stretch of the road is problematic"

Birgit Homburg, a resident of Merasjärvi, thinks it is tragic that another accident occurred along the way. This morning, when she sent her daughter off with the school shooting, she was worried when it was slippery on the road. An hour later she found out about the accident with the ore truck.

- I just feel "no". This is not the first time an accident has happened here, this time it was in the village as well. It is not only the curves that are problematic, but the whole stretch of the road. People have to adjust the speed, it is problematic that there is so much heavy transport here. I hope this winter does not mean as many accidents as last year, she says.

Part of the road has previously been rewritten due to several accidents, including one where six people were killed on January 12 when they frontally crashed with a 90-tonne ore truck. See Assignment review on the accident curve in Masugnsbyn here.