The Jyväskylä rail accident occurred on 6 March 1998 in Jyväskylä, Finland, when the Sr1-driven express train P105 from Turku bound for Joensuu via Pieksämäki derailed. The train left the tracks after coming in too fast on a switch near the station. 300 people were on board (some sources say 500); the fireman driving the train and nine passengers were killed, and 94 passengers injured. The investigation found the cause of the accident to be human error when interpreting signals. The driver of the train was expecting the train to enter the station on another track, which had a higher speed limit of . An estimate of the total cost of the accident was 21.5 million FIM (3.6 million euros). Chronology of events The train had departed Tampere 20 minutes late, but was arriving at Jyväskylä only 10 minutes behind schedule. The crew of two drivers had switched seats at Jämsä, with the driver in charge (the engineer) looking out and the secondary driver (or fireman, ) driving the train when it arrived to Jyväskylä. The fireman was searching for a coffee bag in his personal bag before the distant signal of Jyväskylä railyard and handed it to the engineer, who then began to brew coffee. While seven out of the nine daily trains arriving from Tampere were using track 1, this train was due to arrive on track 3 because of its length. However, track 3 was entered through a so-called short switch, with a maximum speed of . Track 1, which had been used by all arriving trains until the end of 1997, featured a long switch, speed limit . According to the data available from the event recorder, the driver was seemingly prepared to enter the switch leading to track 1 at . Even though emergency braking was initiated, it was effective for only before the switch. The locomotive was thrown some away from the track, crossing a highway and hitting a concrete bridge support at approximately . The driving fireman was killed on impact. The two coaches at the front of the train rolled over and six others derailed, remaining upright. Many passengers were thrown out of the overturned cars and nine were killed as they were crushed under them. As the accident happened close to the city center, the first rescuers were on the scene only four minutes after the accident. However, more units were