Swedish authorities have dropped an investigation against a woman who had been suspected of stealing a train that crashed into a residential building, saying she may have started the train by accident as she was cleaning it.
The four-car train rolled about a mile to the end station of the railway line on Tuesday, where it jumped off the tracks, careered for about 30 yards and crashed into a three-story building.
No one was hurt except the 20-year-old woman, who was trapped in the wreckage for two hours. She was rescued and airlifted to a hospital with serious, but not life-threatening injuries.
Prosecutor Par Andersson said she appeared to have put the train in motion through a series of "unfortunate circumstances," but is no longer suspected of a crime.
She had previously been charged with endangering public safety.
Managers from Stockholm Transport stressed that, despite the incident, it was almost impossible to steal a train and take it on an unauthorised journey.
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