For almost 12 hours, the reindeer herders were forced to handle everything themselves after the accident on Easter day.
Neither the police nor the rescue service arrived at the scene.
So they both had to take care of the traffic and save the animals at the same time.
County veterinarian in Västerbotten Annelie Grip Hansson is surprised.
Animal transport accidents can be complicated and it is not uncommon to have an extra large stress surcharge when animals are involved.
- It can also be complicated and difficult to get the animals out safely, so if they also have to handle the routing of traffic while it sounds like a tough situation there, it would be desirable that the police and perhaps the rescue service also helped, says Annelie Grip Hansson, who first when SVT Sápmi reports on the accident understands the extent.
There are risks
She describes that an accident site like this requires quick assessments.
- There are risks even when you have to use a bolt gun on site and kill, animals can be very stressed as well and rush around.
However, the county veterinarian only has secondary information about the accident, but believes that a situation where both over 100 animals as well as the driver and animal owner are in shock, all signals to send help should go ahead.
- Even veterinarians in sparsely populated areas have large distances and are not always nearby, but of course they can also help - taking animals out through the roof of an overturned truck can also pinch people, so more hands would probably have been needed, says Annelie Grip Hansson who thinks that it would be interesting to see what the police's order of priority looked like that day.
The police have told SVT Sápmi that this is probably a misjudgment on their part.
They have promised to return with an interview on Tuesday.