2021 Mexico City Metro overpass collapse

When

3 May 2021

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

19.30° N, 99.06° W

Description

Train accident

Deaths

26

Injured

98

2021 railway accident in Tláhuac, Mexico

On 3 May 2021, at 22:22 CDT (UTC−5), a girder overpass in the borough of Tláhuac carrying Line 12 of the Mexico City Metro collapsed beneath a passing train. The overpass, along with the last two railcars of the train, fell onto Avenida Tláhuac near Olivos station, resulting in 26 fatalities and 98 injuries. It was the deadliest accident in the Metro's history in nearly 50 years.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Mexico City Metro overpass collapse: 26 people were killed and 98 people were injured when a Mexico City Metro train bridge collapsed when a train passed it”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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