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A truck driver died and at least three people were sent to the hospital after a collision between a NSB passenger train and a truck train on Røros Avenue this afternoon.
The accident occurred in a plane just north of Koppang Hedmark just after 14:00. There were 100 people aboard the passenger train.
There must have been a violent collision.
Henrik Johannessen went to Elverum to visit his girlfriend.
– Sprinkle the glass on all sides. People started screaming and screaming. It was a chaos. It was quite traumatic there and then. It was very surprising and uventa, "said the passenger to Dagbladet.
Someone shouted
Åge-Christoffer Lundeby, head of information at NSB, sat in the front passenger compartment.
– There are four broken rows in the cabin. I think the train was traced on the right side. There was a glass of ice and some uncertainty right after that happened and someone screamed. It happened very quickly and calmly. People helped each other and the atmosphere seemed so calm. People are stable and help each other, says Lundeby to Dagbladet.
He was a passenger on the train traveling from Trondheim to Hamar this afternoon. Several hours after the train accident, passengers were questioned by the police. In addition, a reception center was created at the Stor-Elvdal hotel in Koppang.
Warn parents
The police reported this afternoon relegating the parents of the dead truck driver to ulykka.
Three people were sent to Innlandet Hospital – two to Elverum and one to Tynset.
The train accident did not occur in respect of Highway 3, with most residents outside the municipality of Hedmark, Stor-Elvdal, being known as the headquarters of Østerdalen .
– The railway is on the other side of Glomma, on the east side. The road from the car crossed the railway and collided, is a gravel county road. Almost determined between the cities of Koppang and Atna, says the mayor of the municipality of Stor-Elvdal, Terje Hoffstad, in Dagbladet.
The accident, when the police received the first announcement at 14:07, occurred on a section of Bjørånes lined with pork, about 10 kilometers north of the center of the municipality of Koppang.
The reporter had returned home, about 50 kilometers from Koppang, when he had been informed of the accident.
The councilor, who is at the helm of the municipality's crisis team, has assembled the team to propose a psychosocial offer at the Stor-Elvdal hotel tonight.
Trace
The train will be gone after the collision. The Røros course has been closed indefinitely between Hanestad and Atna today.
– We were informed that they drew from a well. The train must therefore be lifted on the track according to storage and emergency preparedness.
"There was a collision and a trace, so it's probably a relatively strong smell," he says.
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