List of Level Crossing Accidents - Mexico

Mexico

  • 1975 - Cuautitlan level crossing accident — A Mexico City–Ciudad Juárez passenger train smash into an express bus, at least twenty-nine people died and thirty-two people are injured on February 8, 1975.
  • January 17, 1977 - Tianepantla level crossing disaster — A passenger train smash into a local bus, at least forty-two people are killed.
  • August 15, 1982 - Tula level crossing disaster — an express bus hit by Nuevo Laredo-Mexico City passenger train, at least twenty-three people are killed and thirty-two people are injured.
  • February 25, 1989 - Saltillo level crossing disaster — A passenger train smash into a local bus, at least twenty-two people are killed.
  • January 14, 1990 - Léon level crossing disaster — A local bus hit by a freight train, at least thirty-three people died and twenty-six people are injured.
  • December 2006 - Cuautilan level crossing disaster — A passenger bus hit by thirty-six cars of freight train and killing at least twenty-eight, another fourteen are injured.

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