Derailed train ploughs into bank in Australia

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An empty commuter train slipped of its tracks and ploughed into a bank in Melbourne, Australia.

10 March,2011 05:52 pm

The train smashed through the wall, late on Wednesday littering everywhere with bricks after overshooting the stop at the end of the railway, an emergency officer said.The officer added that the driver walked away unharmed. I felt like I was in a movie, you know that movie Speed? I am just so lucky that the girls were not in there, an unidentified local witness said. It is fortunate that nobody was hurt any other time of the day the bank would be full of people, another local said.The bank branch which operates in the building has been closed. We are closed today and were closed for the foreseeable future until we work what to do, its manager said. An investigation into the cause of the accident was underway and the operating authority was quoted as suspecting driver error.