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Mexico Crash Kills 21 as Bus Slams Into Tractor-Trailer Mexico Crash Kills 21 as Bus and Tractor-Trailer Collide
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MEXICO CITY — A fiery freeway accident involving a bus and a tractor-trailer killed 21 people in the Mexican state of Veracruz on Wednesday, according to the authorities and local news outlets.MEXICO CITY — A fiery freeway accident involving a bus and a tractor-trailer killed 21 people in the Mexican state of Veracruz on Wednesday, according to the authorities and local news outlets.
The accident occurred shortly after 10 a.m. local time on a principal highway between the cities of Puebla and Orizaba.The accident occurred shortly after 10 a.m. local time on a principal highway between the cities of Puebla and Orizaba.
The bus was traveling east and carrying passengers from a Roman Catholic archdiocese in the southern state of Chiapas when its brakes failed and it slammed into a tractor-trailer, flipped over and burst into flames, local news media reported. The bus was traveling east and carrying passengers from a Roman Catholic archdiocese in the southern state of Chiapas when it collided with a tractor-trailer, flipped over and burst into flames.
According to a spokesman for the Secretariat for Civil Protection in Veracruz, 19 people on the bus and two people in the truck were killed. At least 30 more people were injured and taken to the Rio Blanco Regional Hospital in Veracruz. While the local news media initially reported that the bus’s brakes had failed and that it had slammed into the truck, a spokesman for the Veracruz Secretariat for Civil Protection said it was allegedly the tractor-trailer’s brakes that had failed.
At least 19 people on the bus and two people in the truck were killed, the agency said. At least 30 more people were injured and taken to Rio Blanco Regional Hospital in Veracruz.
A message posted on a Facebook page associated with a parish in the archdiocese in Chiapas said the worshipers were returning from a weekend pilgrimage to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico’s most important Catholic shrine.A message posted on a Facebook page associated with a parish in the archdiocese in Chiapas said the worshipers were returning from a weekend pilgrimage to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico’s most important Catholic shrine.
The accident occurred along a stretch of the highway known for its hairpin curves, fog and occasional crashes.The accident occurred along a stretch of the highway known for its hairpin curves, fog and occasional crashes.