The stolen empty train after crashing into an
apartment building on Tuesday. - APpic
STOCKHOLM: A woman stole an empty commuter
train from a depot on Tuesday and drove it to a suburb of Stockholm where it
derailed and slammed into an apartment building, officials said.
The woman was seriously injured in
the early morning crash and was flown to a Stockholm hospital, police spokesman
Lars Bystrom said.
No one else was injured.
Bystrom said the woman was arrested
on suspicion of endangering the public.
Tomas Hedenius, a spokesman for
train operator Arriva, said the woman, born in 1990, stole the four-car train
at a depot outside Stockholm.
She then drove it 1.6km to the end
station on the railway line, where it jumped off the tracks, careered for about
25m and crashed into a three-story
building.
Photographs from the scene showed
the crumpled front car of the train buried deep into the structure.
"There were three families
inside the apartment building, but no one was injured. At least not
physically," Hedenius said.
The motives of the woman, who worked
for a company contracted to carry out cleaning for the train operator, were not
immediately clear.
"We have only heard good things
about her. We're investigating how this could happen and why she did what she
did," Hedenius said.
He said it's unclear how she got the
keys to the train, but added that driving it is not that complicated.
"Generally speaking that's
possible even if you're not a train driver," he said.
"You can read about it on the
Internet, or observe how others do it." - AP
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