Skotterud derailment

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Skotterud derailment
Details
Date1 October 2010
Location Skotterud
Coordinates 59°59′N12°07′E / 59.983°N 12.117°E / 59.983; 12.117
Country Norway
Line Kongsvinger Line
Operator SJ [1]
Incident typeDerailment
CauseCrack in a wheel of the first carriage
Statistics
Trains1
Passengers300
Deaths0
Injured40 [2]

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]

Accident

The derailment site after the accident Derailment scene.jpg
The derailment site after the 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]

References

  1. 1 2 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". Foxnews.com. 2010-10-02. Retrieved 2025-06-26.