(AP) The police car crash in Sweden that killed Swedish artist Lars Vilks last year was an accident, Swedish authorities said Wednesday, not a targeted attack on the cartoonist who lived under police protection since his controversial 2007 sketch of the Prophet Muhammad.
An exploding tire led the driver of the unmarked police car carrying Vilks to lose control over the vehicle, which crashed head-on with a truck on Oct. 4, Swedish authorities said in a statement. The crash killed three people, including the 75-year-old cartoonist.
Since Vilks was facing death threats for his drawings and had faced previous attempts on his life, the crash raised the question of whether the crash was a terror attack instead of an accident.
