Inland line: Difficult to reduce speed to avoid reindeer collisions

The reindeer killed by the Inlandsbanan train in the area of ​​Kåbdalis in Jokkmokk municipality are accidents that are difficult to avoid.

That is what the Inlandsbanan says.

- What you can do is to have so-called reindeer warnings where the Sami villages call in to our preparedness when there are reindeer in an area.

Then you go out with a warning so that the train driver is extra attentive, says CEO Otto Nilsson.

Not prepared to slow down

Inlandsbanan will replace the Sami village according to an agreed fixed rate.

But the company is not prepared to slow down for a long time, even if the place where the reindeer were hit is a place where similar accidents have occurred in the past.

In the video, Inlandsbanan's CEO Otto Nilsson explains why you can not do it.