An avalanche along Flateyrarvegur in Iceland has prompted the Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration to consider monitoring the road. The avalanche-prone route is not currently monitored, but improvements are being considered following an incident in which five people in two cars were hit by an avalanche. All escaped without injury, but the area is particularly sensitive to such news since 1995, when 20 people in the small village of Flateyri were killed by an avalanche. The Icelandic Met Office monitors avalanche danger in all at-risk inhabited areas and, under contract with the administration, it also monitors the risk along other roads.