Recent accidents in the Mexico City Metro

The crash of two Metro Line 3 trains in a tunnel between the La Raza and Potrero stations recorded this Saturday morning revives in memory the various accidents that have occurred in the Collective Transportation System (STC) of the City of Mexico.

Here we briefly recount the most recent and serious accidents, which have put the integrity of STC users and employees at risk, which occurred during the current government of the capital, headed by Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, and which have demonstrated the quality of this transport service.

According to the testimony of one of the passengers, upon arriving at the Observatorio station, one of the trains turned off and began to go backwards, back to the Tacubaya station, where it collided with the convoy that was stopped.

• 2021: On Saturday morning, January 9, there was a fire at the facilities of the Metro Control Center that caused the death of one person and 29 intoxicated.

The fire originated during the early hours of the morning at the Central Control Post, located in the center of the city, from where Metro operations are coordinated.

As a result of the fire, several lines stopped providing service to users for several weeks.

• 2021: On the night of Monday, May 3, a section of the elevated tracks of Line 12 of the Metro collapsed, near the Olivos station, located in the Tláhuac mayor’s office, southeast of Mexico City.

The accident, which occurred while one of the trains was running, left 26 people dead and more than 100 injured.

The structure, known in the construction sector as a whale, could not withstand the passage of the convoy.

It should be noted that in its own expert opinion on the collapse of the section of the Gold Line of the Metro, the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office determined that the diaphragms of the collapsed section had cracks generated by the phenomenon known as fatigue due to induced distortion.

• 2023: Two trains on Line 3 of the Metro collided on the morning of Saturday, January 7, which resulted in the death of a woman and at least 57 people injured, according to the brief report offered by the head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, to 1:25 p.m.

The Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office began an investigation into this incident that occurred in the tunnel between the La Raza and Potrero stations.

The injured people were transferred to seven different hospitals, where they have been treated.

The Secretary of Citizen Security of Mexico City, Omar García Harfuch, said that the accident was a collision by reach and that it will be the experts who will define what happened.

At noon this Saturday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed his condolences to the victims of the crash through social networks.

“I regret the accident in the Mexico City Metro. According to what I am informed, unfortunately one person lost his life and there are several injured,” López Obrador said on his Twitter account.

After these incidents in the Metro Collective Transport Service (STC), members of the Va Por México Parliamentary Coalition warned about the need for Claudia Sheinbaum to appear before the authorities

Other accidents in the history of the Metro

Throughout the history of this iconic means of transportation in Mexico City, various incidents have been recorded, such as on October 20, 1975 when two Line 2 trains also collided, which caused the death of 31 people.

Meanwhile, twelve people were injured on May 4, 2015, when two trains collided at the Oceanía station on Line 5 of the Metro Collective Transportation System. During the removal of the impacted trains, a Rolling Stock worker died after one of the wagons uncoupled from the one before it.

The Mexico City Metro, created in 1969, is one of the main means of transportation in the capital and its metropolitan area, where some 20 million people live.

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