One death and more than fifty injured caused a collision between two Mexico City subway convoys in the La Raza area, in the north of the capital, the mayor of the capital, Claudia Sheinbaum, reported this Saturday.
“This Saturday at 9:16 a.m. an accident was recorded on metro line 3 between two trains that resulted in a collision between the La Raza and Potrero metro stations,” reported the head of the Government of Mexico City during a visit this afternoon to the scene.
The official, who gave a brief message in which she did not accept questions from the media, explained that 57 people were injured and remain hospitalized in different hospitals in the capital, “some of them with minor injuries, but they still reached the hospitals ”.
Sheinbaum said that only one person is in serious condition, who is the driver of one of the convoys that collided, but did not elaborate on the details of the severity.
In addition, he confirmed the death of a woman named Yaretzi, but did not give further details, although he stated that he had already contacted his relatives.
Sheinbaum reported that he would go to the 7 hospitals where the injured were hospitalized and ruled out that people had been trapped in the place.
A little earlier, the capital’s prosecutor, Ernestina Godoy, said in a brief meeting with the media that the agency will be supporting the families of the injured “we have given information to all the families,” she said.
Finally, he pointed out that the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the facts “justice will be done, there is an investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office, the experts are there and the final consequences will be reached.”
In addition, he confirmed that the Prosecutor’s Office has already begun an investigation to establish responsibilities and find out what exactly happened, although authorities have announced that the collision occurred due to the collision between the convoys.
The crash took place at 09:16 local time this Saturday between the Potrero and La Raza stations, on one of the busiest lines of the capital’s subway, although it was not at full capacity because it was a weekend.
Sheinbaum reported that the hospitalized people had already been contacted with their families and ruled out that people had been trapped in the place.
After the mishap, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, regretted the accident and said that the authorities of Mexico City were attending to the mishap, who “have our full support.”
The accident joins others in the subway; The most serious occurred on May 3, 2021, when an elevated bridge on the line collapsed, in the Tláhuac Mayor’s Office, in the south of the Mexican capital, causing the wagon to fall onto the road and run aground in the shape of a « V”, leaving 26 dead and a hundred injured.
