Crash train passed red light

Oslo - The driver of one of the two passenger trains involved in a head-on collision in southern Norway, killing 19 people, inexplicably…

Oslo - The driver of one of the two passenger trains involved in a head-on collision in southern Norway, killing 19 people, inexplicably drove past a red light, investigators said yesterday. "The accident inquiry cannot say why the train passed the signal," the Norwegian National Rail Administration said in a statement, giving preliminary conclusions into Tuesday's crash.

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