As recently as Monday evening, at 9 pm, the alarm came about a discharge.

Then the rescue service sent a large force to the marshalling yard in Sävenäs, where a tanker leaked gas.

Then it was carbon dioxide that leaked.

This morning it was time again.

Now, going one more effort at Sävenäs siding in Gothenburg after train cars of extremely dangerous goods derailed and damaged by a collision.  

Statistics that SVT has read from the Swedish Transport Administration now show that the track area has been hit time and time again by incidents and accidents over the past five years: 42 accidents and ten incidents at the site since 2015. Three times the incidents have involved risks for the public.

"Small accidents"

- Most of these accidents are very small, says Katarina Wolffram, press communicator at the Swedish Transport Administration.

The definition of derailment is very broad.

It is enough that one of the wheels leaves the rail, then it is a derailment.

Then you just need to lift the train on the rails again.

Accidents like this today are thankfully very rare.  

But what do you say about having an area like this in the middle of town

- Yes, unfortunately it is as if this is where a lot of goods are collected that must be rearranged and then sent on to the port of Gothenburg, so this is an area with a lot of unloading and loading, says Katarina Wolffram.

Three dangerous events

The statistics from the Swedish Transport Administration Authority categorizes incident as "unsolicited and non-intentional sudden event or series of events which have harmful consequences."

Incident is an "event that under any other circumstance could have led to an accident".

On three occasions, the events have thus entailed risks for the public.

At no time has anyone been killed or seriously injured.

In the clip below, the Rescue Service's task leader comments on Wednesday's accident:

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The train accident in Sävenäs has a strong impact in the immediate area with large roadblocks.

Photo: TT