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90-year-old affirmed right to national transportation service

A 90-year-old Halmstad woman who was denied a car ride from the national transportation service (riksfärdtjänst) to her son's house on Christmas Eve has had her day in court. The court ruled the elderly woman has a legal right to receive transportation assistance.

Published: 12 July 2009 09:43 CEST

The service is available to disabled individuals who are unable to travel by ordinary public transportation.

The elderly woman submitted her request to be driven to her son’s house in Varberg on Christmas Eve in November 2008. Her request was denied by Hallandstrafiken transportation company, which referred the woman, who is dependent on a walker, to the train or the bus.

The woman appealed the decision to the County Administrative Court (Länsrätten), which right before Christmas found in her favour. On Christmas, she was therefore driven to her son’s.

But Hallandstrafiken then took the case to the Gothenburg Administrative Court of Appeal (Kammarrätten) to avoid having to drive the 90-year-old in the future.

The court has now established that the woman has a legal right to receive the national transportation service, reported Hallandsposten newspaper.

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STABBING

Police warned ahead of crazed knife attack

Friends of the man who went on a crazed knife attack in Varberg in western Sweden on Sunday, killing one and injuring two and leading to his own death, had previously warned police over his state of mind.

Published: 8 July 2013 08:17 CEST
Police warned ahead of crazed knife attack

“The information was that he was not feeling very well and that they were worried about him,” said Jonas Bergman at Halland police to the GT Expressen daily.

A description of the man was also provided to police who were unable to prevent the knife attacks which led to one woman’s death and two men being rushed to hospital with stab wounds.

Police were called at around 10am on Sunday morning following the stabbing of a man on Gamla Kyrkbacken in central Varberg.

While police were hunting the suspect an hour later reports filtered in of further stabbings on Lilla Drottninggatan. A man in his late teens and an elderly lady are reported to have been stabbed at the location.

The suspect was later shot by police after refusing to surrender his weapon and subsequently died of his injuries.

Early Monday morning, there was no new information about the condition of the two men stabbed condition, according to Varberg Hospital.

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