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Skotterud derailment
2010 railway incident in Norway From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Skotterud derailment occurred on 1 October 2010, at Skotterud in Eidskog Municipality, Norway. An InterCity train from Oslo (Norway) traveling 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]
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Accident
Shortly after leaving Kongsvinger Station 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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