Tuesday 13 September 2011

Argentina Bus-train Crash Kills 7, Injures 162

Rgentine say authorities that seven men kill in a rush hour collision in Buenos Air involve two passengers trains and a bus its whose driver troops around barriers in an attempt to hit them over the roads.

Police say that 162 men under that hurt, many of them serious are. They are treated at hospitals around Buenos Air.

he force of the arriving train reduced the bus to a fraction of its width as it became wedged against the station platform. The front of the train then slammed into another train that was preparing to leave the Flores station in the opposite direction on the Sarmiento line, which connects the suburb of Moreno to the Once station downtown.

Schiavi said children also were among those injured in the accident, which happened at 6:15 a.m., just when many parents use public transportation to take their children to school.

Schiavi said the barriers appeared to be functioning normally, but reporters at the scene challenged that, saying some witnesses had reported that one of the barriers had descended only part-way down, leaving room for the bus to try to drive across the tracks despite the warning bells. Schiavi said investigators were studying videotape of the accident to determine exactly what happened.