Sunday, May 8, 2016

Young man killed in high-voltage accident – Oppland Arbeiderblad

Østlendingen: It was at 03.37 on Saturday night that police inland was notified that three young men had climbed on a train set on the railway line in Moelv.

Young people should be climbed on a train set that was used to repair the railway line.

This was filled with gravel.

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15,000 volts running stream

On site gets Østlendingen stated that it was 15,000 volts through the catenary when the accident happened.

As a result, the toy should one of these young people have ingested large amounts of electricity from high voltage line across the track.

for the police it is presently unclear how this happened.

the man, who will be 20 -Year, however, was pronounced dead after the doctor arrived at the scene Saturday night.

maintenance work

National Rail currently operates with an extensive maintenance work on Dovrebanen between Hamar and Lillehammer.

the current train set was in use in connection with this work.

instead we get informed that it usually does not go driving current in the catenary when this kind of work train in use.

the reason is that the current train set runs on diesel fuel.

Why it was current in the catenary in the night, is so far not known.

– We have events quite clear to us. Baneservice driver maintenance on the rails and in the night three men going up on the train set and somehow come down high voltage, said police efforts leader Tor Inge Strandvik to Østlendingen.



Taken care of by the health care

One of the two others who were on the train set is also termed damaged but the damage is not known as yet.

the person was taken to hospital and are cared for there. The third should have come from the accident unharmed.

All three young men were students at Arbeiderbevegelsens folk in Ringsaker and police have now notified the school management and municipal crisis team.

According to police, the casualties not of Hedmark and Oslo police requested assistance to get notified relatives.

the site is located between Moelv center and Rudshøgda – just south of Skarpsno tunnel.

Investigation started

on Sunday morning work local police with the investigation of the accident.

– We are investigating, among other events. Meanwhile progress tactical investigation by questioning the police office, said Strandvik.

According Strandvik is not the area where the train cars are cordoned off physically and the electrical lines going over the train set was climbed on.

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