Potato spill on Danish bridge causes traffic, authorities investigating whether spill was accidental

A 57-year-old motortruck operator was detained Thursday aft loads of potatoes were recovered spilled connected a cardinal span linking 2 Danish islands, constabulary person said. The operator was held connected suspicion of causing reckless endangerment to life.

A archetypal spill was reported connected the westbound broadside of the Storebaelt span astatine 6.35 a.m., constabulary spokesperson Kenneth Taanquist said. The span connects the land wherever the capital, Copenhagen, is located to the rest of Denmark.

A akin incidental happened connected the eastbound broadside a abbreviated clip later, Tanquist added.

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"It looks weird," helium said. "We are moving connected 2 hypotheses: it is either an mishap oregon it is thing that has been done deliberately."

Potatoes are seen scattered crossed the carriageway connected the occidental portion of the Great Belt Bridge successful Denmark, connected June 1, 2023.  (presse-fotos.dk/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Police said the roads had go slippery and urged drivers to thrust slowly. According to the Danish Road Directorate, lines of vehicles were reported connected either broadside of the astir 11 .2 miles span and passageway nexus betwixt the islands of Funen, wherever Odense — Denmark's 3rd largest metropolis — is located, and Zealand, wherever Copenhagen sits.

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A 3rd incidental of potatoes connected the roadworthy was reported adjacent the municipality of Kolding connected the Jutland peninsula. Kolding is adjacent the Storebaelt bridge.

Danish nationalist broadcaster DR noted that the murphy spills occurred connected the aforesaid time arsenic the Danish parliament passed a instrumentality to taxation diesel trucks transporting dense loads.

The caller measurement has drawn protests from motortruck drivers. In caller weeks, they peacefully blocked highways and main roads passim the country, claiming the tax will marque their livelihoods unsustainable. A bulk successful the Danish parliament reason it is captious arsenic the continued usage of state and diesel-fueled trucks is environmentally unsustainable.

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As of 2025, the drivers of state and diesel-fueled vehicles implicit 7, 716 pounds volition beryllium taxed $0.19 per fractional a mile.

Torben Dyhl Hjorth, a spokesperson for the protesting truckers, said on Facebook that they "strongly region themselves from today’s ‘stunts’." He added that they program protestation astatine a aboriginal signifier which "can beryllium felt but without hazard to people’s lives and well-being."