A tram derailed and crashed into a shop in central Oslo today, injuring the driver and at least three other people, Norwegian police said.
Emergency services treated the injured at the scene as no one was believed to be seriously injured, a police statement said, adding that around 20 people were on board the tram at the time of the impact.
The blue tram of the Oslo transport authority Sporveien derailed and crashed into a computer store on the ground floor of a four-story building in the center of the Norwegian capital.
It derailed as it was making a left turn on Storgata, one of the main streets in central Oslo, said Anders Renning, the police officer in charge of operations at the scene.
“Instead he continued straight and right into the store,” he told Reuters.
Thomas Larsen, 41, a demolition worker, said he was riding his electric scooter towards the tram when he saw it derail in front of him.
“I braked. Three seconds earlier, I would have been under the tram,” he told Reuters. “It’s scary that this can happen in the middle of the city.”
It is too early to determine the cause of the incident, said a spokesman for Sporveien. “Investigations will have to be done on the spot by our experts,” he added.
The accident prompted a massive response from emergency services that cordoned off the area. The building was evacuated and will be inspected for structural damage, police said.
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