Skotterud derailment
Appearance
Skotterud derailment | |
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Details | |
Date | 1 October 2010 |
Location | Skotterud |
Coordinates | 59°59′N 12°07′E / 59.983°N 12.117°E |
Country | Norway |
Line | Kongsvinger Line |
Operator | SJ[1] |
Incident type | Derailment |
Cause | Crack in a wheel of the first carriage |
Statistics | |
Trains | 1 |
Passengers | 300 |
Deaths | 0 |
Injured | 40[2] |
The Skotterud derailment occurred on 1 October 2010, at Skotterud, Norway, when an InterCity train from Oslo (Norway) to Stockholm (Sweden) derailed due to a cracked wheel. Forty people were reported injured.[3]
Accident
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Shortly after leaving Kongsvinger the train derailed near Skotterud at 17:40, with one carriage flipping over on its side and another running off the track and stopping in a ditch.
Passengers reported loud noises, sudden braking and a crash that some thought resulted from a collision with a vehicle. Most managed to get out of the wrecked carriages themselves and an emergency reception center was set up at the nearby town hall in Skotterud.[1]
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