Three British tourists, including a child, have died after the 4×4 they were in crashed off a bridge in Iceland.
Joe Gammie
December 27 2018 2:06 PM
Three British tourists, including a child, have died after the 4×4 they were in crashed off a bridge in Iceland.
The accident happened at around 9.30am on Thursday when the Toyota Land Cruiser carrying seven passengers crashed through a railing of a one-lane bridge in the south of the country before falling around eight metres onto a river bank.
Police said one child was among the dead and two, aged seven and nine, among the injured in the crash which took place on a 200-300 metre bridge on the national Route 1 road near Skeidararsandur, a vast sand plain in southern Iceland.
The four injured were airlifted to hospital in the capital Reykjavik with serious injuries and police are not sure when they will be able to question them about how the driver lost control of the vehicle.
Police said the road was not thought to be icy but humidity could have made the surface slippery for the SUV, which was driving eastbound over the bridge in Nupsvotn, just south of the Vatnajokull glacier.
Chief Superintendent of south Iceland Police Sveinn Kristjan Runarsson said the four injured have been taken to hospital with serious injuries, but added that « we haven’t been able to talk to them about what happened ».
Those involved in the crash are from two British families, and a number of them are thought to be of Indian heritage.
The Indian Ambassador to Iceland, Mr T. Armstrong Changsan, is believed to have visited the survivors in hospital.
Tour guide Adolf Erlingsson, who was among the first on the scene, told the Associated Press: « It was horrible.
