Anita Lundmark has a cabin in Umasjö and tells SVT that accidents occur almost every year along the route, both with passenger cars and heavy traffic. Last January, it was a major accident where a truck driver drove off the road and ended up on the side.

- No person was injured at the time, but it was a difficult salvage effort to get up the truck and it caused quite a lot of damage to the road and the middle rails, says Lundmark.

It is 90 kilometers along the road and as the stretch is close to water, ice settles over early in the autumn and stays long in the spring. In view of the accidents this summer, the village belonged to both the County Administrative Board and the Swedish Transport Administration.

Does not judge by the number of accidents

The hope was to either get to a speed limit or a warning sign for an accident road. On September 16, the Swedish Transport Administration announced that no warning sign will be erected along the road, just over four weeks before Wednesday's fatal accident.

In the Swedish Transport Administration's reply it can be read that the authority does not set up warning signs based on accident statistics but makes an assessment based on how difficult the danger is to detect when traveling at the maximum permitted speed.

- Then I said that then we can simply return after a fatal accident has occurred, says Lundmark.

On September 24, the County Administrative Board also returned and announced that no speed reduction was necessary, but that the local residents' views will be taken into account when the authority goes through what speeds in the county need to be reviewed.

- We just want to make a change so that more people do not have to put their lives to life, says Lundmark.

Investigation is in place

At the Swedish Transport Administration, it is announced that an in-depth investigation will be carried out into the accident and what caused it.

- We do this after every accident, but the investigation is confidential until it is completed because it is about sensitive information, says Camilla Hult, press contact at the Swedish Transport Administration.

Can such a case lead to a re-evaluation of a warning mark?

- I can't comment on this particular case, but if you find something in the investigation that needs to be adjusted, you will certainly do so, says Hult.

Hear more about the road conditions on the road in the clip above.