A train that derailed and crashed into a residential
building in Saltsjobaden is seen outside Stockholm. It was
initially thought the train had been stolen and crashed by
a cleaner, but prosecutors now say the crash was an
accident. REUTERS/Jonas Ekstromer/Scanpix Sweden
The crash of a train into a low-rise apartment building
in Sweden this week was an accident and not the fault of a
cleaner who was the only person hurt, state prosecutors say.
Swedish police and prosecutors began an investigation into
the accident on Tuesday in which a train ploughed past the
end of the line at a depot, vaulted a narrow sidestreet and
crashed into an apartment block in the upscale Stockholm
suburb of Saltsjobaden.
"Several circumstances point now to the fact that the train
began moving due to an accident," the state prosecution
service said in a statement. "There is no longer anything
which indicates that the woman drove the train away on
purpose."
The service said it had found serious breaches of security on
the train. The woman, who is still in hospital and with whom
prosecutors have not been able to speak, was no longer
suspected of committing a crime and an order for her
detention has been lifted.
Prosecutors began investigating the case as one of
endangering the public, but that might now be changed to one
of a breach of laws on working conditions, the prosecution
service said.
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