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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, on the Kongsvinger Line at Skotterud, Eidskog Municipality, Norway. An InterCity train from Oslo, Norway traveling to Stockholm, Sweden derailed due to a cracked wheel. Forty people were injured, including former Eurovision Song Contest executive supervisor Jon Ola Sand. 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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