Man steering Norway ship that crashed into a garden was asleep, police say

The supervisory officer of a huge container who ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway told the police that he was sleeping at the time of the incident.

Investigators said that the man, a Ukrainian national in their thirties, admitted that he fell asleep alone.

He was accused of negligence navigation and the police also investigate the question of whether the rules concerning the work and the hours of rest have been respected on board the ship.

The 135m-Navire (443 feet) missed a house per meter when he ran for Thursday morning in Byneset, near Trondheim, in the center of Norway. Until now, the efforts to rebuild it have failed.

“The charged person was the surveillance officer at the time of the incident,” the Trondelag police district said in a press release.

“During the interrogation, he said that he fell asleep in service alone, which led the stranded ship,” he added.

No one was injured in the incident.

The Cypriot flag cargo, NCL Salten had 16 people on board and traveled to the southwest through the Trondheim fjord in Orkanger when he poured.

Johan Helberg, owner of the property, described the moment he looked by his window and saw the ship in his garden.

“I had to bend my neck to see the top. It was so unreal,” he said in an interview with The Guardian.

He was alerted to the bustle by a panicked neighbor who heard the noise of the ship and watched the shore head towards the shore.

“Five meters further south and he would have entered the room,” Helberg told Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

According to reports, the ship had previously failed in 2023, but Crew managed to release it using its own power.