I didn't know trains could do that

[Josquius]

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/girl-steals-train-crashes-into-building-in-sweden-317755

Stockholm: A cleaner stole an empty commuter train from a depot on Tuesday and drove it to a suburb of Stockholm where it derailed and slammed into an apartment building, officials said.

The woman was seriously injured in the early-morning crash and was flown to a Stockholm hospital, police spokesman Lars Bystrom said. No one else was injured.

Bystrom said the woman was arrested on suspicion of endangering the public.

Tomas Hedenius, a spokesman for train operator Arriva, said the woman, born in 1990, stole the four-car train at a depot outside Stockholm.

She then drove it about a mile (1.6 kilometers) to the end station on the railway line, where it jumped off the tracks, careered for about 30 yards (25 meters) and crashed into a three-story building.

Photographs from the scene showed the crumpled front car of the train buried deep into the structure.

"There were three families inside the apartment building, but no one was injured. At least not physically," Hedenius said.

The motives of the woman, who worked for a company contracted to carry out cleaning for the train operator, were not immediately clear.

"We have only heard good things about her. We're investigating how this could happen, and why she did what she did," Hedenius said.

He said it's unclear how she got the keys to the train, but added that driving it is not that complicated.

"Generally speaking that's possible even if you're not a train driver," he said. "You can read about it on the Internet, or observe how others do it."

This is something you don't see everyday.
Nice little swing at the train drivers union at the  end there too, "Its not that hard, anyone can do it"



Of course, trains can derail, but hearing the title and seeing the picture at first the image that came to mind for me was of someone stealing a train and riding it down the road....

[Liep]

I think that picture illustrates why not just anybody should be driving trains. :-p

[KRonn]

Very nice, took a train out for a little ride through a major city. What could possibly go wrong?     

[Ed Anger]

Looks like a typical game of transport tycoon. At least when I was playing.

[The Brain]

*shrug* Women drivers.

[garbon]

*shrug* Women drivers.

Swedish drivers.

[The Brain]

*shrug* Women drivers.

Swedish drivers.

The cleaner was Swedish? Seems unlikely.

[Valmy]

Yeah I thought it was weird they told you absolutely nothing about the woman, over here they would not just give out the name but probably the picture as well.  But I guess that is pretty standard in Sweden.

[The Brain]

Yeah I thought it was weird they told you absolutely nothing about the woman, over here they would not just give out the name but probably the picture as well.  But I guess that is pretty standard in Sweden.

We prefer not to tell you people anything.

[Valmy]

We prefer not to tell you people anything.

What do you mean 'you people'?

[mongers]

I was surprised to find this thread hadn't turned into a typical Languish trainwreck. 

[Strix]

I was surprised to find this thread hadn't turned into a typical Languish trainwreck. 

No, we try to keep threads on track around here.

[Eddie Teach]

All this punning makes me want to kick somebody in the caboose.

[garbon]

We prefer not to tell you people anything.

What do you mean 'you people'?

Texans?

[mongers]

Turns out the cleaner didn't steal the train, but may have accidentally set it in motion because of some procedural safety errors:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21088672