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Rose-painting, rosemaling, rosemåling or rosmålning is a Scandinavian decorative folk painting that flourished from the 1700s to the mid-1800s, particularly in Norway. In Sweden, rose-painting began to be called dalmålning, c. 1901, for the region Dalecarlia where it had been most popular and kurbits, in the 1920s, for a characteristic trait ...
On 3 May 2010, the preliminary accident report was submitted by the Norwegian Accident Investigation Board. It stated that were confusions between train managers at Alnabru which triggered the crash. [9] It was a "misunderstanding between the shunter and another train manager" which caused the empty freight cars to roll.
January 3 – India – Ghatnandur train crash: 18 people died in a collision of two trains at Ghatnandur in Maharashtra [40] January 31 – Australia – Waterfall rail accident: The driver of a southbound passenger train suffered a heart attack and died; the train then sped out of control and derailed on a curve, overturning several cars and killing six passengers.
24 March – Norway – Sjursøya train accident: Sixteen goods wagons ran away for 8 km (5 mi) from a goods yard at Alnabu in Oslo, hitting and destroying a quayside warehouse. Three people died and four were seriously injured. [13]
United States – 2023 Chicago train crash: In Chicago, a two-car CTA Yellow Line 5000-series train rear-ended a snow removal work train at a curve near Howard station in the Rogers Park neighborhood, injuring 38 people (23 of which were hospitalized, including four children).
With 27 killed, including seven children under 16, [3] and 25 injured, it was the worst train crash in Norwegian peacetime history. [4] One accident victim was from the United States [5] while the rest were Norwegians, including the politician Tønnes Andenæs. Altogether there were around 800 passengers on the two 12-car trains.
March 2 – United States – Imperial County car crash. 13 people were killed and 13 others wounded when an SUV and a semi-truck collided in Imperial County, California. March 2 – Bolivia – Colomi bus crash. A bus traveling along Route 7 fell into a ravine, [312] killing 21 people and injuring 17.
Ninety-four people were killed, of whom 44 were children on a holiday outing. After the accident, barrier-dependent train signalling was introduced on the DR network. July 31 – United Kingdom – Thirsk rail crash, an express train from King's Cross to Edinburgh collided with the wreckage of a derailed freight train. Seven were killed and 45 ...