A child is in critical but stable condition following a collision between two passenger cars on the E6 highway in Tana, Finnmark. Three adults involved in the crash escaped with no injuries or only minor ones. The exact time of the accident remains unclear, but Finnmark Police District reported it at 5:14 p.m. on Friday afternoon. The crash occurred south of Sirbma, close to the Norwegian-Finnish border. A Finnish ambulance was the first emergency unit to arrive at the scene. The injured child and one adult were airlifted to University Hospital of North Norway in Tromsø for treatment. The other two adults were flown to a hospital in Kirkenes. According to police operations leader Martin Marum, who spoke to the press early Saturday morning, the child’s condition is serious but stable. Operations leader Eli Opphaug told Norway’s NTB news agency that officers at the scene described extremely slippery road conditions—black ice—even though temperatures had dropped to minus 23 degrees Celsius. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration’s accident investigation team arrived around 9:30 p.m. to begin their work. The E6 was closed immediately, forcing traffic to detour through Finland. The road reopened to regular traffic shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday.
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