A car crashed into a birria stand in Iztapalapa and injured seven

The afternoon of March 9 the motorist crashed his vehicle into a birria stand in the mayor’s office iztapalapain Mexico City (CDMX). The driver hit at least four people. who were on the site.

The accident happened around 4:30 p.m. on Calzada Ermita Iztapalapa and Antiguo Camino Los Reyes, near Atlalilco metro station, when the driver collided with the food business and hit several people, The driver and his companions were injured. Also.

They went to the place Mexican Red Cross paramedics who treated three people there and transferred the rest to nearby hospitals, none of whom were seriously injured. There was also a strong mobilization of elements of the Secretariat for Citizen Security (SSC) and Civil Protection.

One of the people in the car involved said the incident happened when The driver of a truck unexpectedly joined the road, who made that who was driving the vehicle lost control while dodging it, as he mentioned in an interview with TV hole.

Part of the metal structure of the pole was embedded in the carwhose windshield ended up completely shattered.

The accident triggered traffic chaos, which is why some drivers chose to take alternatives such as axes 4 and 6 south.

This is not the first such incident in Iztapalapa so far this year, only on March 7 video of a suspected drunk driver crashed into several cars and mall workers near the Mexicaltzingo metro to escape the parking lot.

The recording, dated March 3, shows how two employees of a valet service tried to stop the motorist after he hit a white van. During his escape, he hit several other vehicles and knocked over one of the workerswho tried to throw a projectile at him to slow his pace.

The manager killed the employee on the hood of his truck several meters; he threw it until it joined the road.

On the other hand, on February 18 a The collision of a bus against a newsstand and a bus stop in Ermita Iztapalapa left five injured. Presumably, the incident was due to the fact that the truck, in which there were 18 people, had a mechanical brake failure.

The owner of the semi-permanent grandstand was not injured, while several passengers were injured. None of them were reported as serious.

SSC Police arrested the person responsible for the accident and members of the Heroic Fire Department of Mexico City and the Secretariat for Integral Risk Management (SGIPC) were tasked with removing a traffic light and advertisement that had also been hit by the bus.

At CDMX, an average of 20 vehicle accidents occur daily with different levels of severity, which stems from the the death of about five people a dayaccording to Vicente Torres, researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

The researcher pointed out that At the national level, the number of deaths due to vehicle accidents is between 30 and 20 per day. Among the main triggers of these fatal accidents are the consumption of alcohol, distractions and increased speed due to haste.

These figures are similar to those of 2019, which had been reduced due to the health emergency caused by Covid-19 and which are returning to normal.

At the national level, we have recorded, both only in urban areas, 340 thousand 415 accidents in 2021according to information from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI).