In 2015, a train that did not stop on time crashed into another at the Oceania station, injuring 12. In March 2020, a collision between two trains at the Tacubaya station left one passenger dead and injured 41. The Mexico City Metro - which is among the world’s cheapest with tickets costing about 25 cents -has had at least three serious accidents since its inauguration half a century ago. The overpass was about 5 meters (16 feet) above the road in the borough of Tlahuac, but the train ran above a concrete median strip, which apparently lessened the casualties among motorists. She said 77 of the injured were hospitalized, adding that children were among the dead. “The cause of the collapse of the beam must be established through an expert investigation,” Sheinbaum said.Įarlier, she said someone had been pulled alive from a car on the road. Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard called the collapse “the most terrible accident we have ever had in mass transportation.” Ebrard was Mexico City’s mayor from 2006 to 2012, when the affected line was built.

in one of the deadliest episodes in the history of the city’s subway system, which is among the world’s busiest. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said one of the concrete beams collapsed as a train passed over it about 10:30 p.m. A crane carefully lowered the car to the ground Tuesday. It was not clear if those dead were included among the toll of 23. Rescuers found four bodies inside a rail car that was dangling from the overpass but were unable to remove them.

Mexico city metro overpass collapse