translated from Spanish: Truck-train crash leaves 5 women injured in Jalisco

Guadalajara, Jalisco.- Five women injured was the balance that left a collision between a cargo truck and the light rail, on Wednesday morning in Guadalaja, in Jalisco. It was past 10:00 hours when the incident occurred occurred about the crossing of Colón and Urdaneta, at the station of the same name, in the colón Industrial colony.Elements of Civil Protection and Firefighters of Guadalajara indicated that the truck was loaded with pumpkins and headed to the Marketplace, however it hit the train and overturned on its right side; the diesel tank broke and there was a spill of this fuel.
An ambulance from Guadalajara Municipal Medical Services came to the site and when it was on site it was hit by a private security unit due to the diesel spill. HELP US Click the Google News star and follow usAfter the crash, five women traveling on the train resulted in minor to regular injuries, while the driver and the heavy weight were unharmed.

Five women injured was the balance of the accident. Photo: Reformation

Due to the spill, the circulation of Colón Avenue was closed in the direction from south to north, as well as Urdaneta Avenue. The Siteur service is maintained in both directions, only slow traffic is recorded at the site. Firefighters from Guadalajara and the State covered the diesel with sand and sawdust in order to avoid an accident.

Photo: Reformation

In the past days a similar event was recorded, but in the municipality of Ecatepec, in the State of Mexico. A freight train rolled through the box of a trailer as the driver of this unit tried to win way to the locomotive. The impact caused a carambola that affected other vehicles nearby. The events occurred in the Rústicos colony of Xalostoc, in the municipality of Ecatepec and were recorded on the c 5 surveillance cameras of the State of Mexico.The video shows the trailer going through the train tracks while the other units stopped to respect the stop signal.  Just as the cargo box was on the tracks, he passed the railroad hitting the back of the lane. From the impact, the trailer ended up hitting a truck, a car and a motorcyclist who were stopped at the traffic light.
Civil Protection, State Safety and Municipal Protection units were alerted and moved to the crash site immediately to assist the injured. The train driver, José Luis N, and the occupants of the other units were injured. The municipal authorities reported that the people were cared for at the crash site and that none of them needed to be taken to the hospital.
Because of the magnitude of the accident, circulation was severely affected. The ministerials did the appropriate errands 

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