スウェーデンで女清掃員が通勤列車を強奪する

スウェーデンで通勤列車が強奪される

★スウェーデン、ストックホルム郊外のサルトシェバーデンで列車が脱線して住宅に衝突、現場検証をしている警察官(2013/01/15)

「記事内容」

1月15日午前3時頃、スウェーデン郊外で4両編成の通勤列車が女に乗っ取られた。

犯人は列車の清掃を行っていた派遣清掃員の20代の女。

列車は線路の端から90フィートも脱線して近くの3階建ての高級アパートに激突した。

この衝突で犯人の女は重傷を負い、近くの病院に空輸搬送された。アパートの住民3家族にはけがはなかった。

この犯人の女は列車の運転の免許は持ってはおらず、この列車会社に勤めていたわけでもなく、外部委託の会社から派遣された清掃員だ。

女は公共の危険を生じさせたとして逮捕された。

列車会社関係者の話によると、列車の運転は実はそれほど難しくはないのだという。

インターネットで運転の仕方を調べたり、運転しているところを見たりして運転の仕方を覚えることは可能だという。

★でも決してマネはしないように。危険ですから。

「英文記事」

It’s pretty much goes without saying that you probably shouldn’t steal something you don’t know how to drive. A Swedish cleaning woman found herself a bit over her skill level when she decided to make off with the hulking mass of steel she was polishing – a Stockholm commuter train.

Her joyride didn’t turn out so well. The early-morning trip ended when the train jumped the rails and crashed into a three-story luxury apartment building in the Stockholm suburb of Saltsjöbanan, a Baltic seaside town 11 miles southeast of the Swedish capital. The unauthorized driver was seriously injured in the crash and airlifted to a nearby hospital. The three families inside the building weren’t hurt – “at least not physically,” Tomas Hedenius, spokesman for train operator Arriva, added.

The unnamed woman allegedly made off with the four-car train around 3 a.m. while cleaning it at the Neglinge train station, two stops from the end of the line at Saltsjöbaden. The mile-long ride went as smoothly as the novice driver could manage, but stopping was clearly not her strong suit: the train went off the end of the line and slammed into the apartment complex about 90 feet past the end of the tracks.

The woman wasn’t a licensed train driver, nor did she even work for the Saltsjöbanan rail company. She was employed by an outside contractor hired to clean the trains. Arriva, the train operator, is currently investigating how she could have obtained the keys to the train. The woman, in her early 20s according to Hedenius, was charged with endangering the public.

While NewsFeed doesn’t pretend to know how to drive a train, Hedenius alluded to the fact that it isn’t actually that difficult: “You can read about it on the Internet, or observe how others do it,” he told the Associated Press. Still, we wouldn’t recommend trying it on your own.

(Time 2013/01/15)


「語句」

make off with 　= ～を盗む、～を奪い去る(=steal,rob)