Jyväskylä rail crash
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The Jyväskylä rail crash occurred on March 6, 1998 in Jyväskylä, Finland when the Sr1-driven express train P105 from Turku bound for Joensuu via Pieksämäki derailed. Of the 500 on board, the driver and nine passengers were killed, and 94 passengers were injured. An estimate of the total cost of the accident was 22 million mk.
The accident was caused by a human error in interpreting signals. The train derailed because of overspeeding in a switch that had temporarily been set to a diverging track. The locomotive and eight cars fell down on the railway yard and the locomotive was thrown some 50 metres away from the track.
A new schedule had reserved track 3 for the train's arrival, instead of the previous track 1. Track 3 was entered through a so-called short switch, with a maximum speed of 35 km/h. Track 1 used a long switch, speed limit 80 km/h. It was judged from the event recorder data that the driver had misinterpreted the signals and was prepared to enter track 1 at 80 km/h.
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