Skotterud derailment

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 and, luckily, no one was killed in the derailment.[3]

Skotterud derailment
Details
Date1 October 2010
LocationSkotterud
Coordinates59°59′N 12°07′E
CountryNorway
LineKongsvinger Line
OperatorSJ[1]
Incident typeDerailment
CauseCrack in a wheel of the first carriage
Statistics
Trains1
Passengers300
Deaths0
Injured40[2]

Accident

The derailment site after the 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]

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