Skotterud derailment

Skotterud derailment
Skotterud derailment
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
Incident type	Derailment
Cause	Crack in a wheel of the first carriage
Statistics
Trains	1
Passengers	300
Deaths	0
Injured	40

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, including former Eurovision Song Contest executive supervisor Jon Ola Sand, were reported injured. No one was killed in the derailment.^[3]

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.^[1]

References

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[Probe_underway_into_train_derailment-1] Probe underway into train derailment^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[2] Train derails on Norway-Sweden border, injuring 40

[3] Train derails on Norway-Sweden border, injuring 40^{[dead link‍]}

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