Dacia Duster is no longer in the lava field

The fact that tourists try to get too close to the eruption site at Sundhnúkagígar crater row is a problem that has also occurred in previous volcanic eruptions on the Reykjanes peninsula. However, no rescue teams have been called in connection with the current eruption, but it was noted that an attempt was made to drive a Dacia Duser car offroad in the area. That car is no longer in the lava field as we reported earlier.

“Of course, there are always some people who come near eruption sites, it’s inevitable,” says Úlfar Lúðvíksson, police chief in Suðurnes, to mbl.is, adding, “This has not been a big problem in itself so far.”

As mbl.is has reported, a Dacia Duster car was out in the lava field at the start of the trail that runs west of the Blue Lagoon on Sunday. Lúðvíksson says the car was never driven into the area closed off by closing posts, and that the car is no longer in the area.

Some places that tourists make their way from

The tourists Bata Osovina and Tata Osovina recently posted videos on their social media, where they’re very close to the volcanic eruption at Sundhnúkagígar crater row. One of the videos, which has been very popular, shows them cooking hot dogs on a pan with the help of the heat from the lava.

How do hikers get to the new eruption site?

“They might be coming from Grindavíkurvegur road, the Blue Lagoon, or from the parking lot at Mt Fagradalsfjall,” Lúðvíksson replies.

He reiterates that people who enter a hazard zone travel at their own risk.

“This is a problem we know well since the first eruption and this eruption is number seven.”

People go up to the old eruption site

Jón Þór Víglundsson, the information officer for Landsbjörg rescue team, said he has no information about any particular number of people trying to make their way to the new eruption site and the rescue team has not been called to the premises due to traffic.

He mentions, however, that some people are making trips up to the old volcanic site. This weekend, for example, the rescue teams Þorbjörn and Skyggnir saved three exhausted hikers on the hike to Litli-Hrútur, just west of Mt Kistufell.