A freight train sheared a double-decker bus in half at a crossing northwest of Mexico City on Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 55, authorities said. The accident took place in an industrial area of warehouses and factories in the town of Atlacomulco, about 80 miles northwest of the Mexican capital, the
AP reports. The state of Mexico's civil defense agency said on X that authorities were still working at the site of the accident, and the state prosecutor's office said it had opened an investigation. The bus from the Herradura de Plata line was ripped apart by the collision.
Authorities did not immediately give details about how the accident occurred, but one video circulated on social platforms showed the bus in heavy traffic slowly moving across the train tracks when the fast-moving train suddenly appeared out of frame, ramming the bus at its midpoint. The train's momentum carried the bus down the tracks and out of frame. The front half came to rest in the opposing traffic lanes beside the crossing and the rear half farther down on the opposite side of the tracks.
There were no visible crossing gates or other stop lights, witnesses said. But shortly before 7am, 33-year-old Miguel Sánchez said he heard the train blow its horn like trains always do well ahead of the crossing. Sánchez works at a service station about 100 yards away. Cars continued to cross the track in the lead-up to the crash. Then, the train barreled into the bus. Cars going in the other direction stopped crossing the tracks at the time the bus drove onto them, though a motorcycle scooted across seconds before the crash. The train hit the passenger side of the bus. This story has been updated with an updated death and injury toll and other details.