Attorney General: Excessive Speed Caused Fatal Interoceanic Train Crash
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Attorney General: Excessive speed caused fatal Interoceanic Train crash
Excessive speed was the cause of the Interoceanic Train crash that claimed 14 lives in southern Mexico in late 2025, Attorney General Ernestina Godoy said Tuesday. In a video message, Godoy said that when the train crashed, it was traveling at 65 kilometers per hour (km/h) on a curve where the maximum “authorized speed” is 50 km/h. She said that the speed the train was traveling when it derailed in the state of Oaxaca on Dec. 28 was determined v…
The locomotive of the Interoceanic Train that was derailed on 28 December was circulating at 65 kilometers per hour, 15 kilometers above the speed allowed in an area of curves, said Ernestina Godoy Ramos, holder of the Attorney General's Office of the Republic (FGR), when he announced the progress of the survey related to the accident in which 14 passengers died and 98 more were injured.
The Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR) has pointed this Tuesday to speeding as the cause of the derailment of the Interoceanic Train a month ago in Oaxaca, which left 14 dead and a hundred injured. The train was circulating at 65 kilometers per hour, 15 above the permitted level, on the curve at which the accident occurred and went to exceed by 41 kilometers per hour the limit in straight lines, according to the Attorney General, Er…
As part of the investigations, charges have been brought for manslaughter and involuntary injury, Godoy said, not to mention the driver, who was unharmed in the accident.
Oaxaca Senator Antonino Morales Toledo, president of the Special Commission for Follow-up and Impulse to the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, expressed his support for the preliminary results presented by the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) on the railway accident recorded on December 28, 2025 in the community of Nizanda, Oaxaca. FGR determines speeding as the cause of the railway accident in Oaxaca According to the le…
Mexico City.- The Attorney General's Office of the Republic (FGR) arrested the railway operator Felipe de Jesús Díaz Gómez on Monday in Palenque, Chiapas, for alleged responsibility for the accident of the Interoceanic Train registered on 28 December last in Oaxaca and which resulted in 14 deaths. According to the National Register of Detentions, the Federal Ministerial Police of the FGR captured Díaz at 9:24 a.m. based on an arrest warrant, pre…
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