Earlier this week a runaway train crashed through the bumpers and into a Holiday Inn Hotel in Helsinki, Finland. Helsingin Sanomat has the details on the crash which happened on Monday, January 4. Reports are that no one was seriously hurt in the crash although some Ernst & Young workers who were in inside the hotel were able to get away just before the crash.
The four coaches had escaped from an empty Intercity train that was scheduled to leave for the eastern city of Kajaani at 8.12 a.m. The brakes on the coaches should have automatically engaged.
From the Sanomat news brief, “The scope of the damage to the hotel building is not known yet, but material damage is estimated to amount to millions of euros. On impact, the hotel’s sprinkler system went off and water also flowed into the pedestrian tunnel underneath the railway tracks. A shop in the tunnel was forced to close. The four coaches had escaped from an empty Intercity train that was scheduled to leave for the eastern city of Kajaani at 8.12 a.m.”
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