Metro collision in Mexico kills
one, injures dozens
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| Two subway trains collide in Mexico City (ANSA) |
One person has died and 41 have been injured in a collision
between trains on Mexico City`s metro system.
By James Blears
The accident happened at 11.30 last night local
time at the Tacubaya Station, on the Observatorio line of Mexico City`s busy
Metro System. Footage taken moments after the high impact collision shows
one orange train and carriages straddling the other, wedged into the
roof.
The Red Cross, Police and Metro workers helped extract
people from the wreckage. Thirty eight of the forty one injured were taken to
the nearby Durango Clinic. One person has since died in Hospital Alvaro
Obregon. Mexico City`s Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said those hurt in the accident
are not seriously injured.
She together with Mexico City`s Attorney General`s Office,
has launched an investigation into the crash. The Metro system which
transports more than five million commuters daily, has a strict system of
lights which regulates the circulation and flow of trains. When a red light
shows the train has to stop sometimes for minutes, in order to allow another
train to progress in front of it. Or for another train coming in the opposite
direction to safely pass. That system or human error which is needed to
regulate it, has failed in some way. The question is....how?
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