Driver in shock as drilling crushes subway train
Published: 11 Dec 09 08:13 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23788/20091211/
The red line in Stockholm’s subway was stopped for one hour on Thursday after a work team’s drilling punctured the subway tunnel and damaged a train.
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“They drilled right down onto a subway train,” Lars-Erik Baarsen, station officer at Södermalms Police, told news agency TT.
After the workers had drilled to a depth of 20 to 25 metres, the team noticed that the resistance to the drill disappeared. “They then withdrew the drill and discovered that two-and-a-half metres of the drill was missing,” Baarsen said.
Meanwhile, down in the tunnel, the driver of the subway train was shocked when the side panel of his carriage was suddenly crushed by something from above.
Greater Stockholm Local Traffic Authority (SL) stated that it was either the drilling itself that crushed the panel or something the drilling pulled loose on its way down. The result was that the subway’s red line stood still for approximately one hour, from around 3.45pm.
No one was injured in the incident, including the driver. “We had amazing luck. It could have been really serious,” Per Ekberg, SL’s press officer, told TT.
The police have commenced a preliminary investigation into whether there may be grounds to lay charges over gross negligence causing a public danger.
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lets hope that airspace also has things like planes.
Industrial accidents on building sites are rare in Sweden compared to other countries.
Most likely it was a mapping error. The good thing is that in Sweden the maps will now be updated to correct the error.
Making outdated maps the scapegoat when losses of life could occur from the negligence of the drilling company to properly follow through with all safety procedures before beginning to drill will cure nothing.
> Making outdated maps the scapegoat when losses of life could occur from the negligence of the drilling company to properly follow through with all safety procedures before beginning to drill will cure nothing.
Do you even realize how hard it is to check if there is a subway tunnel 25 meters under where you are drilling, without actually drilling? People these days are outraged when planes crash, while they should be saying: "I am FLYING!" Same here; without accurate maps these things just happen, and either the drilling company made an aiming error (very gross negligence!), or the public subway maps are wrong, and should be corrected and rechecked as quickly as possible.