1 Killed, 41 Injured In Mexico City Train Collision

A male passenger was killed and 41 people were injured when two trains collided in Mexico City and disrupted service on the metro on Wednesday.

In an ABC News report, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said in a Twitter post that one of the trains in the Tacubaya underground station was apparently reversed into the other by accident the night before, shortly before midnight.

Metro authorities reported that two drivers of the trains were among those who were injured.

Twenty-five of the injured passengers were treated at the scene and remaining 16 were taken to the hospitals; all injured passengers were not serious or life-threatening.

An outside investigation into the crash would be conducted said Metro director Florencia Serrania.

There were disruptions during the morning commute on Wednesday as Tacubaya is a majoy station for the Metro system.

Metro authorities said that the service on Line 1 would be reduced throughout the day in Tacubaya and a nearby station out of action and 45 buses would be utilized to cross the gap of about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers).

Serrania said that around five cars on each train were damaged and authorities were working to restore the service as quickly as they could.

The most recent incident happened in 2015 when a train failed to brake in time and slammed into another at the Oceania station, injuring 12 people while the most serious accident killed at least 31 passengers and injured more than 70 people back in 1975 when two trains collided at the Viaducto station.