A 23-YEAR OLD LADY STOLE A TRAIN AND CRASHED INTO A BUILDING

A young woman charged with cleaning a commuter train instead appears to have stolen the empty train from a depot and driven it until it derailed and crashed into a house in a Stockholm suburb, local officials said.
An injured person was found by the train and sent to a hospital in an ambulance helicopter, local police said, adding the injured person was also detained for endangering the public. Police said it was unlikely that anybody except the driver was on the train at the time of the accident, and no other injuries were reported.
Local police received an alarm call around 2.30 a.m. that a derailed train had collided with a building in the suburb of Saltsjobaden.

Bertil Grandinson, 71 years old, who lives on the top floor of the three-story building, woke up in the middle of the night from the loud crash, Swedish daily Aftonbladet reported. "It sounded like an air-plane crash. I rushed to the window and then I saw the
train," Aftonbladet quoted him as saying.
Tomas Hedenius, spokesman for train operator Arriva, said it remains unclear what the woman's intentions had been when the vehicle crashed at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour. He said the woman had been hired to clean the train and its depot.
"If you manage to get hold of the key, it isn't particularly difficult to get a train rolling," he said. It isn't any more difficult to stop a train than to start it, he added.
The Associated Press quoted Mr. Hedenius as saying that there had been three families inside the house, which held several apartments, when the train crashed into it, but that no one was injured.
"The police technicians have probably finalized the technical investigation," police spokesman Lars Bystrom told The Wall Street Journal. "Now that needs to be completed with witness hearings and other things so that we can sort out what happened and why."
By Tuesday afternoon, it still hadn't been possible to hear the injured person, Mr. Bystrom said.
Incidents involving trains getting seized and crashed into buildings are practically unheard of.
According to her colleagues at cleaning firm Caretia, the young woman, born in 1990, has been a well-liked coworker, Mr. Hedenius said. "You didn't see this coming," he said.