The columns and structure of the entire six-kilometer (3.7-mile) elevated portion of Line 12 will be reinforced with elements such as struts and tensors, according to a report by the mayor’s office. 14 and is on course to be completed by year’s end. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, however, said Tuesday in a press conference that reconstruction work began on Feb. Jose Nieto, a retiree who lives in the Los Olivos neighborhood, remembers the “magnitude of the accident” and urged authorities to complete the repair work that many say is progressing too slowly. But I prayed for those who were there, who died or who (suffered an injury),” Ofelia Aguilar, a police officer and local resident whose son had been riding on that same line shortly before the accident but got off a few stations earlier, told Efe. “I thank God that no one in our family was there. That tragic day is fresh in the minds of the residents of the area surrounding the accident’s ground zero – between the Tezonco and Olivos metro stations. Some families also have been entering into settlement agreements, Estupiñan’s law firm announced last week, although no specifics have been released. He and a score of other survivors and victims’ family members have tried to seek justice in Mexican courts.Īnd 14 plaintiffs represented by attorney Cristopher Estupiñan took their case to the New York Supreme Court, where they filed a civil lawsuit against the companies that constructed Line 12 of the Mexico City Metro: Mexico’s Ingenieros Civiles y Asociados (ICA), France’s Alstom and Spanish railway manufacturer CAF. No one has been jailed to date over the accident, although Mexico City’s District Attorney’s Office said the investigation is still ongoing and that it will seek to indict 10 people on involuntary homicide and other charges. “Virtually all of us fell downward … until I realized my legs were really destroyed.” “I was at the entrance (to the car), in the part that was left pointing up (toward the overpass),” Alvarado said. The man says he and his brother still need several surgeries, although he acknowledges that authorities have covered their medical expenses thus far.
Twenty-six people died and nearly 100 others were injured.īenito Alvarado, one of victims now pursuing financial damages, told Efe that he was returning home from work with his brother when one of Line 12’s overpasses collapsed and caused his train car to fall onto Tlahuac Ave.Īlvarado, who was unable to move anything except his head for several days and still cannot walk (doctors told him it would take two years), said his physical recovery is a bigger priority than money. The accident occurred on May 3, 2021, in the capital’s eastern borough of Tlahuac, just a couple of hundred meters (yards) from the Olivos metro station, and caused the train’s final two cars to fall to the street and come to rest in a diagonal “V” shape. Mexico City, May 3 (EFE).- Survivors and family members of those who perished in a deadly Mexico City metro overpass collapse one year ago are continuing their search for justice and compensation.
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