:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/JNOE576VX5EOBIIUZZIM2VQVV4.jpg "The collision of a bus against a stand and a bus stop in Ermita Iztapalapa left 5 injured")
On the afternoon of February 18, a accident in which a a passenger bus collided with a semi-permanent station, a bus stop, a traffic light and an advertisement in the office of the mayor of Iztapalapa, Mexico City (CDMX). in the truck18 people were travelingof which five were injured.
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The traffic incident happened on the road Hermitage Iztapalapa corner with Jalisco Avenue, located in the neighborhood of Santa María Aztahuacán, according to the Secretariat for Integral Risk Management and Civil Protection (SGIRPC). Paramedics came to the scene They served five people who were traveling on the bus; none had to be taken to hospital and firefighters.
Members of the Heroic Mexico City Fire Department were tasked with cleaning up the mess on public roads. While police officers attached to the Citizen Security Secretariat (SSC) questioned the driver of the vehicle involved in the accident.
After the accident, the owner of the newsstand, who was not injured, had a confrontation with the driver and one of the passengersthat he would have hit.
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Until 8:30 p.m. on site, the firefighters and elements of the Civil Protection continued to intervene to remove the debris, the traffic light and the fallen sign. A crane moved the bus to clear the road.
The accident produced road chaos that mainly affected motorists coming from the Mexico-Puebla highway. The bus was coming from the latter route when the driver lost control, presumably due to a mechanical breakdownas revealed by one of the passengers of tv hole.
Among those in the vehicle were members of a musical group, Banda Chaparralwho had planned a presentation in Santa Cruz Meyehualco after presenting himself in the territory of Puebla.
On February 18 there was also a accident on the Mexico-Querétaro highwayin which at least three vehicles were involved: a trailer, a bus and a private vehicle. It was presumably the driver of the cargo vehicle who caused the incident, when he hit the bus, which in turn hit the car.
The star fruit occurred at the height of the Punta Norte shopping center, in the direction of Mexico City, just on the border of the municipalities of Cuautitlán Izcalli and Tlalnepantla, located in the State of Mexico (Edomex).
According to the most recent information from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), only urban areas have been 340 thousand 415 traffic accidents nationwide in 2021. Of the total number of accidents, in 3,849 of the cases there was at least one person dead and in 60,584 at least one person was injured.
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Emergency services treated people near the crash station
In total, the number of deaths and injuries recorded in traffic accidents that year was 86 thousand 867 people.
specifically In Mexico City, an average of 20 road accidents occur every day with different levels of severity, which stems from the deaths of about 5 people per 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 now returning to normal.