vestby station has seen several accidents and injuries. in january 2004, a linx train from gothenburg, travelling at , crashed into a plowing car that was partly parked on the railway tracks at vestby. no passengers were hurt in the accident. it was victim of sabotage in march 2004, when some local youth laid steel pipes over the tracks. in 2006, a two-year-old boy fell down from the platform and was run over by a passing train. in june 2010, the station building caught fire in the middle of the night, but left no injuries.