What the records say
- When
- 4 Jan 2010
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 60.17° N, 24.94° E
- Description
- rail accident in Finland
- Deaths
- 0
- Injured
- 1
2010 Helsinki Central Station accident
Rail accident in Finland
On 4 January 2010 at the Helsinki Central Station, four empty passenger carriages overran the buffers of platform 13. The carriages had broken free of their train during a shunting manoeuvre and ran under gravity down the gentle hill from Linnunlaulu before being diverting into an empty platform and impacting the buffers at 20–30 kilometres per hour.
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