Horrible accident in CDMX: a truck overturned and ended up in the light rail facilities

The tranquility of the morning of March 5 was interrupted by a spectacular road accident recorded at the town hall of coyoacanin the Mexico City (CDMX).

It was around 07:00 that elements of the Citizen Security Secretariat (CSS), heroic firefighters and traffic went to the neighborhood of Campestre Churubusco to deal with the overturning of a truck that was lying in the workshops of the Light Rail capital. This, about the road to tlalpan and cross Puerto Rico Street.

According to unofficial information, the white unit carrying food was taken to speeding on CDMX’s main southern avenue. This caused the driver lose control and crashed into a retaining wall that protected transportation facilities belonging to the Metro Collective Transportation System (STC).

The impact knocked down the metal fence, while the truck overturned and came to rest on its left side (corresponding to the driver’s side) in the guarded area.

Despite the fact that the vehicle did not end up on Tlalpan Avenue, its circulation was affected by the shelter that the capital’s authorities made to wait for the emergency and cleaning services – the latter to clean up the traces of food that had been scattered along the way.

In this way, the bodies of Civil Protection (PC) and the Mexican Red Cross arrived who attended the two people injured after the car incident. This, while a crane of the SSC of the capital tried to reintegrate the unit.

Reckless driving due to speed is one of the most recurrent causes of road accidents, both in the capital and throughout the Mexican Republic. In 2016, approximately 1.35 million people died and still others became permanently disabled after being involved in speeding-related vehicle collisions.

According to the National Institute of Public Health (INSP), the probability of a person sustaining serious injuries in a traffic accident is less than 20% when the vehicle speed is 30 kilometers per hour. However the percentage increases to 80% at 50 km/h.

Of course, the risk of death is much higher when it comes to vulnerable groups, such as pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, children, the elderly and people with disabilities.

At least 10 cars and a motorcycle were involved in a multiple crash on Avenida Río Churubusco, at the height of the mixcoac inequalityin the town hall of Benito Juárez.

Preliminary reports said the carom was caused by the driver of a water main, who allegedly lost control due to mechanical failure of the brakes, rammed into several units traveling on the low deck.

Unofficially, it was pointed out that the event had a balance of eight people injured; two of them were transferred to Xoco General Hospital and it is presumed that one was the motorcyclist. As, N+ reported that the alleged perpetrator had fled.