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Måbødalen bus accident
The Måbødalen bus accident or Måbø Canyon bus accident was a bus crash on 15 August 1988 during the descent from Hardangervidda into the Måbø Valley on the way to Bergen, Norway. The bus collided with the concrete arch at the exit of the Måbø Tunnel on Norwegian National Road 7. Of the 34 passengers aboard, 15 were killed. In addition, the bus driver died from his injuries 12 days after the crash.
The bus was a Volvo B58 built in 1977 and owned by the Swedish company
all its hairpin turns. The Måbødalen bus accident occurred in 1988 on the new road. 
The Fossli Hotel is situated on top of the mountain, overlooking the Måbødalen valley and the Vøringfossen waterfall, just off Rv7. The hotel owns a Zimmermann piano where Edvard Grieg composed "Norwegian Folk Songs," Opus 66 (1896). In 1854, Johan Christian Dahl painted "Måbødalen", a landscape painting of the area. The painting is in the art museum in Bergen.