Skotterud derailment

Skotterud derailment
The derailment site after the accident
Details
Date	1 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 type	Derailment
Cause	Crack in a wheel of the first carriage
Statistics
Trains	1
Passengers	300
Deaths	0
Injured	40 [2]

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]

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. 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.