No fewer than fourteen people have died and thirty-one others were injured in a road accident in Mexico on Sunday, the authorities announced. The accident took place in the state of Mexico, on the outskirts of the capital, when a bus overturned on the roadway, the local safety secretariat said. Road accidents have been on the rise in Mexico since 2020.
A total of three hundred and seventy-five claims were recorded in 2022, according to the National Statistics Institute. On February 24, ten people died in a traffic accident in the north-central state of San Luis Potosi, including four minors. On Saturday, a truck ran over migrants on foot, killing three of them, in the southern state of Oaxaca and the driver is still at large.