The police are opening an investigation after a train derailed in Bergen on Friday evening. The train company says that the damage is worse than first feared.
Published: 23/03/2024 11:57
The police will question the train driver after the accident, writes TV 2.
The National Accident Investigation Board and the police’s crime technicians are on their way to the scene of the accident.
– We are still at the scene with a patrol and have been on guard waiting for the Accident Investigation Board and crime technicians to arrive, operations manager Steinar Hausvik in the West police district told the channel.
Police attorney Anja Mathisen states that they have several hypotheses as to why the accident happened, but cannot go into any of them. So far, no one has been charged or suspected.
– We want an interrogation of the driver of the goods train and are planning more interrogations, says Mathisen.
No one was seriously injured
The derailment occurred outside a 2.2 kilometer long tunnel at Arna Station on the Bergen Railway.
No one was seriously injured as a result of the derailment, but the train driver had minor injuries and was attended to by medical personnel.
The locomotive driver has since been discharged from Haukeland University Hospital, writes NRK.
– Worse than first feared
The train that derailed belongs to the privately owned train freight company Onrail.
General manager of Onrail, Henning Aandahl, describes the extent of the damage as worse than feared.
– Here we feel that the outcome was extra serious because the derailment occurred at the entrance to the tunnel. There were several wagons that hit the rock wall, and a sudden stop with much greater damage than would otherwise have happened, says Aandahl to NRK.
– It was extra unfortunate and much worse damage than we first feared and had thought, he adds.
