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| Situation Update No. 1 Ref.no.: VI-20100324-25440-NOR
Situation Update No. 1
On 2010-03-24 at 15:33:13 [UTC]
Event: Vehicle Accident
Location: Norway Capital City Oslo
Number of Deads: 3 person(s)
Number of Injured: 3 person(s)
Situation: Several railway cars broke loose from a cargo train and crashed into a building at an industrial port in the Norwegian capital, killing at least three people and injuring three others Wednesday, police said. The runaway train cars rolled for about 3 miles (5 kilometers) before they slammed into the port terminal, where some of them fell into the water, police and railway officials said. The victims had been working in or around the building, which collapsed from the impact, police spokeswoman Martine Laeng said. She said nobody was onboard the train. Vegar Halveg, who works for a transport company at the port in the Sjursoeya district of Oslo, said he heard a loud screech and looked out the window to see several empty cargo train cars speed past. "They were going much faster than they usually do, so we realized something was wrong," Halveg said, estimating their speed at more than 100 kilometers an hour (62 miles per hour). "The last car was practically airborne." Halveg said several cars derailed and one of them hit a dump truck. The driver was injured but conscious when rescue workers put him in an ambulance, he said. Images from national broadcaster NRK showed at least two train cars in the water beside the dock and a collapsed one-story concrete building. The Norwegian National Rail Administration said a group of train cars had come loose at the Alnabru cargo terminal and rolled to the port. It wasn't immediately clear how the train cars got disconnected. Oslo police and rescue personnel were on the scene, where a second building was also damaged. |  | | | |
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