A routine matter on an early January morning on the Öresund Bridge this year. The turn signals from road work are numerous enough to illuminate half a city.

But many do not seem to notice, the traffic is speeding past at high speed.

With a few centimeters margin, a truck misses the road worker Marco Hallgren's erected safety car, where he is fastened with a regular three-point belt.

When he and his colleague go out to write an incident report and photograph the safety car, the next truck arrives.

- He has his head down in the phone and does not see us. It's full throttle, 90 kilometers per hour, heading right towards us.

- Then I just shout: Run!

Remember the sound of the crash

As if someone ran over a large garbage bag filled with empty cola cans. This is how Marco Hallgren describes the sound from the crash, which sent his 18-tonne safety car several meters across the road.

- We ran to the left. It saved our lives. Had he turned to the left, we would not have been here today, says Marco.

The first feeling was to scold the driver. Instead, they ran over to the truck to check that he was okay.

- There were absolutely no problems. He ran out almost immediately with all the insurance papers. It felt like it was routine for him.

And it also seems to have become routine for Marco. After eight years in the profession, he has been refined. The number of road users who daily ignore the speed regulations during road works is innumerable, he says. Something that the partner sometimes worries about.

- If you know that you have to work in a place where a lot of accidents happen, I avoid telling her.

Calls for harsher punishment

The question of whether it is worth the risk he has asked himself many times. But as a safety representative within both the trade union Seko and the company Skanska, he is also passionate about improving safety during road works.

- Above all, tougher penalties and more checks from the police are needed.

In an email to SVT Nyheter, Erling Andersson, strategically responsible for the police's professional traffic work, writes that road workers are particularly vulnerable in traffic. However, there is no national strategy to increase road safety.

"The efforts that are made are based on the local problem picture and are decided in the police areas," he writes.