Authorities at the time welded steel diagonal braces to the bottom of the beam, chipped out and repoured fractured concrete elements.Canada is standing with - and thinking of - the people of Mexico City this morning. In 2017, authorities patched and widened the column by injecting resins, swathing it in carbon fiber, building a jacket of additional rebar around the base and pouring concrete around the collar.Īuthorities also found that one of the horizontal beams had come loose from its support at the top of a vertical column and was sagging - the kind of failure that could have contributed to Monday’s collapse.
#Overpass collapse on mexico city metro kills at least 24 cracked
Like many of the dozen subway lines, it runs underground through more central areas of the city of 9 million but is on elevated concrete structures on the outskirts.Ī report issued by the subway system including photos in 2017 showed that the base of one vertical column supporting the tracks had cracked and shed layers of concrete because not enough steel rebar stirrups had been used when it was built around 2010. The collapse occurred on Line 12, the subway’s newest, that stretches to the city’s south side. in the earthquake, and the authorities didn’t pay attention,” Yañez said, noting similar problems were reported at another nearby station, but nothing was done. “That part there was already declared bad. The scene shook him because he had exited the metro at that same station earlier in the day. Helicopters landed at a nearby Walmart to ferry the injured to hospitals. He saw a cloud of dust and falling debris followed by an eerie silence until emergency vehicles began arriving. Julio Yañez, a 67-year-old lawyer whose apartment overlooks the collapsed metro line, was working at his computer when he heard a loud noise and felt his building shake. Authorities at the time had done patchwork repairs on the columns and horizontal beams. In October 1975, at least 26 people were killed in another accident.Ī magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 exposed dangerous construction defects in the elevated line near where Monday’s accident occurred. In 2015, a train that did not stop on time crashed into another at the Oceania station, injuring 12. In March 2020, a collision between two trains at the Tacubaya station left one passenger dead and injured 41. The Mexico City Metro - which is among the world’s cheapest with tickets costing about 25 cents -has had at least three serious accidents since its inauguration half a century ago. The 25-year-old student had been awake since beginning an “exasperating” odyssey the previous night that took them to seven hospitals and multiple prosecutor’s offices in search of his uncle. On Tuesday afternoon, Carlos Miramar waited under a tent on metal chairs with two other relatives to receive the body of his uncle. Children were among the fatalities, Sheinbaum said. Of the 24 killed, 21 died at the scene, while the others died at hospitals.
On Tuesday, a crane carefully lowered a train car containing four bodies to the ground. as a train passed along the elevated section, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said. Monday night’s accident was one of the deadliest in the history of the subway, and questions quickly arose about the structural integrity of the mass transit system, among the world’s busiest.Īnother 27 people remained hospitalized of the more than 70 injured when the support beams collapsed about 10:30 p.m. MEXICO CITY - The death toll from the collapse of an overpass on the Mexico City metro rose to 24 Tuesday as crews untangled train carriages from the steel and concrete wreckage that fell onto a roadway.
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