On Monday, there was a string of accidents around Finland.

Two people lost their lives on Highway 8 in Merikarvia, in the southwest, when a passenger car and van collided head-on.

In Loppi, in the Häme region, four people were injured in a pile-up on Route 54 involving a lorry, a van and a car. The accident began when the car struck a grain truck coming in the other direction. The lorry pushed the car about 20 meters and knocked over several traffic signs before tipping over itself. Then the car hit a van in its own lane.

Another multi-vehicle collision left one person hurt in Espoo. On the Turku motorway, a lorry struck a bus that was stopped on the side of road and was then itself rear-ended by a car. Another crash backed up traffic on Highway 7 between eastern Helsinki and Porvoo.

In Haukipudas, near Oulu, two people were injured in a head-on crash on Highway 4.

In Orivesi on Highway 9 another collision of a passenger car and van led to six people being injured.

Another Fatal Crash on Tuesday

The chaos on the roads continued on Tuesday. That morning, one person was killed in a two-car crash near the Ämmässuo landfill in Kolmperä, northern Espoo. The old Turku road was closed after the accident.

Highway 7 was partially blocked near Loviisa in the south-east after two multiple-vehicle crashes. First there was a collision involving two lorries and two cars, and later a separate multi-car pile-up.