Location Skotterud Type of incident Derailment Passengers 300 Total number of deaths 0 Injuries 40 Passenger count 300 | Rail line Kongsvinger Line Trains 1 Date 1 October 2010 Country Norway Operator SJ AB | |
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Cause Crack in a wheel of the first carriage | ||
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.
Accident
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.
References
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