Even for the Guardian, the article seems short and simplistic.
Doing a quick web search - there are quite a few copycat stories. Never any mention of how his car got stuck, nor whether he'd tried to reach safety or call for help, nor a missing person police report, nor any search for him, nor ...
Not saying I think highly of the Daily Mail - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103339/Swedish-man... - but their backstory (the man being deeply in debt, depressed, estranged from his family, and recently broken up with his girlfriend) would seem to answer a lot of questions.
Doing a quick web search - there are quite a few copycat stories. Never any mention of how his car got stuck, nor whether he'd tried to reach safety or call for help, nor a missing person police report, nor any search for him, nor ...
Not saying I think highly of the Daily Mail - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103339/Swedish-man... - but their backstory (the man being deeply in debt, depressed, estranged from his family, and recently broken up with his girlfriend) would seem to answer a lot of questions.