After two 18-year-old girls were killed by the train in September 2010, several investigations started. Among them, it was found, among other things, that sound and light signals had worked and that the crossing met all regulations. But neither the Swedish Transport Administration nor the municipality were satisfied with the design of the intersection. The trains ran at high speed, the visibility was partially obscured by a curve and many people passed, partly because of a nearby high school.

So, after an action selection study in 2014, it was decided that the intersection should be replaced with a tunnel or bridge.

The transition was closed after another accident

In May 2018, another person, a 17-year-old boy, died in the same place. The investigation shows that he had headphones in his ears and probably did not hear the train.

Within a few months after the fatal accident, the transition was completely closed and fences have been set up along the track.

"The solution wasn't good, but we couldn't live with that intersection anymore," says Bengt Rydhed, deputy regional director at the Swedish Transport Administration.

Removing the intersection is no solution

Most of all, one would like to remove the intersection completely, says Bengt Rydhed, but the municipality has said no. That would impair accessibility too much.

To summarize, the Swedish Transport Administration wanted to find a long-term solution for the safety at the railway crossing that could be joined with other planned initiatives, such as the redevelopment of the Travel Center, the Nösnäskrossningen and the double track to Gothenburg.

When recently presented the alternatives bridge, tunnel or boom, the municipality chose the latter, much because it could be in place far earlier than the alternatives.

The Swedish Transport Administration has an understanding of the Stenungsund residents

Bengt Rydhed says it could be that you build a boom in the short term and that the transition will later be separated by a bridge or tunnel.

Among the Stenungsunds residents SVT News West talked to is the perception that it took too long between the first fatal accident and that a proposal for a solution has now been presented,

- I understand that, like Stenungsundsbo, it has taken a long time. It was a complicated matter and it is not good that it has become this way but now it still feels like we have a solution going on, says Bengt Rydhed.