Argentina bus and trains crash kills 11
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Argentina bus and trains crash kills 11
Over 200 people, including children, injured as train hits bus on level crossing in suburb of Buenos Aires
* Associated Press
* The Guardian, Wednesday 14 September 2011
A wounded passenger is carried out of wreckage after the crash in Buenos Aires. Photograph: Rodolfo Pezzoni/AP
Eleven people were killed in a rush-hour crash involving two passenger trains and a bus in Argentina on Tuesday, authorities said.
Police said 212 people were injured, many seriously, and were being treated at hospitals around Buenos Aires after the bus driver drove through barriers at a crossing in an attempt to beat the trains and get across the tracks.
Argentina's transport secretary, JP Schiavi, said the bus driver was among those killed.
The vehicle was hit by an oncoming train as it attempted to cross the tracks and was crushed into a nearby platform. The train was shunted off the tracks, hitting another that was preparing to leave the station in the opposite direction.
The force of the arriving train reduced the bus to a fraction of its width. Helicopters helped carry the injured to at least seven hospitals.
Schiavi said children were among those injured in the accident, which happened at 6.15am next to Flores station, where many parents use public transport to take their children to school.
The transport secretary said the barriers at the crossing appeared to have been functioning normally, but reporters at the scene said some witnesses had reported that one had descended only part of the way down, leaving room for the bus to try to drive across the tracks despite warning bells.
Schiavi said investigators were studying videotape of the accident to determine exactly what happened.
Argentina bus and trains crash kills 11
Over 200 people, including children, injured as train hits bus on level crossing in suburb of Buenos Aires
* Associated Press
* The Guardian, Wednesday 14 September 2011
A wounded passenger is carried out of wreckage after the crash in Buenos Aires. Photograph: Rodolfo Pezzoni/AP
Eleven people were killed in a rush-hour crash involving two passenger trains and a bus in Argentina on Tuesday, authorities said.
Police said 212 people were injured, many seriously, and were being treated at hospitals around Buenos Aires after the bus driver drove through barriers at a crossing in an attempt to beat the trains and get across the tracks.
Argentina's transport secretary, JP Schiavi, said the bus driver was among those killed.
The vehicle was hit by an oncoming train as it attempted to cross the tracks and was crushed into a nearby platform. The train was shunted off the tracks, hitting another that was preparing to leave the station in the opposite direction.
The force of the arriving train reduced the bus to a fraction of its width. Helicopters helped carry the injured to at least seven hospitals.
Schiavi said children were among those injured in the accident, which happened at 6.15am next to Flores station, where many parents use public transport to take their children to school.
The transport secretary said the barriers at the crossing appeared to have been functioning normally, but reporters at the scene said some witnesses had reported that one had descended only part of the way down, leaving room for the bus to try to drive across the tracks despite warning bells.
Schiavi said investigators were studying videotape of the accident to determine exactly what happened.
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