Skotterud derailment

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.

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.