Johannes
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Bus accident near Tijuana
I just read in the newsticker that there was a bus accident west of Tijuana with 14 fatalities and 22 people injured. Does anyone has more details?
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noproblemo2
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Eighteen people were killed and 31 others injured on Saturday when a bus fell into a 250-meter- deep ravine and broke into two parts at kilometer 40
of the La Rumorosa highway, in northern Mexico state, Baja California.
Three children were killed and five children were injured in the accident, Afredo Escobedo Ortiz, the head of the state government’s civil protection
department told media.
Mexican media named 14 of the dead and said that four people remain unidentified. Those named are between 3 and 26 years old. Earlier reports said
that only 14 people had died.
Regional authorities said that brake failure was the most likely cause. Involved in the rescue work are police and fire crews from the cities of
Tecate, Tijuana and Mexicali, all in Baja California. The dead and injured are being taken to Mexicali.
On Thursday, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told reporters that road accidents kill around 15,000 people in Mexico each
year, due to poor road quality and dilapidated vehicles. He estimated that 80 percent of Mexico’s deadly accidents are preventable.
http://tantaonews.com/?p=24350
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What a terrible shame...
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DianaT
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That is one very long steep grade for brake failure----how terribly sad, just sad. 
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noproblemo2
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It's very tragic event for those families
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/02/baja-bus-cras...
By Sandra Dibble
January 2, 2010
TIJUANA — Fourteen people died and 21 were injured early Saturday when a bus carrying agricultural workers and their families plunged more than 300
feet down an embankment on a curving mountain road about 70 miles east of Tijuana.
The fatalities included 11 adults, two children and an infant, according to the Baja California Attorney General’s Office.
Other drivers who witnessed the 5 a.m. accident along Highway 2D in the mountain pass of La Rumorosa helped carry survivors back to the road until
rescue vehicles arrived, a statement said.
A survivor told authorities that one of the drivers for the Tierra del Sol bus company had commented that the brakes were failing, and that they would
seek help from a mechanic once they reached Mexicali. The impact left the bus split in two parts.
Alfredo Escobedo, Baja California’s director of civil protection, said investigators were looking into whether the accident was caused by brake
failure or whether the driver had fallen asleep. It was unclear whether the driver had survived.
The passengers were Mixtec Indian day laborers and their families traveling from San Quintin, an agricultural area south of Ensenada to another
agricultural area in the state of Sinaloa, outside the capital of Culiacán. They had left Rancho Papalote in San Quintin at about 7 p.m. Friday, the
statement said.
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bajadogs
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It's hard to imagine how horrific this must have been. It barely made the news here in San Diego. What a different headline this would be if it were a
few miles north of that invisible line. I came up that hill yesterday not knowing what had happened.
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Dave
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Noproblemo, this wasn't a TRAGEDY
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A survivor told authorities that one of the drivers for the Tierra del Sol bus company had commented that the brakes were failing, and that they would
seek help from a mechanic once they reached Mexicali.
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It was CRIMINAL.
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