Samuel Luna, Bernardo Uribe and Jesús Sosa/ Reform Agency
Sunday, January 08, 2023 | 06:19
CDMX.- Some of those injured in yesterday’s accident on the Metro had to wait for more than half an hour to receive help. Others left the convoy by their own means, since they only saw the authorities go by, but in their wagon they were ignored.
“It took them to get us out of the car for about 30 minutes or more. Then we walked along the tracks and they took care of me on the platform, there they bandaged my arm and I got out,” explained Edgar Montiel.
One affected, despite the fact that the tragedy occurred at 9:16 a.m., was treated at noon.
“Yes, he touched me, carnal. I got scared, but thank God I’m fine. I’m already waiting for them to tell me what’s up,” Edgar said by phone, after the accident this Saturday where a 28-year-old girl died.
Édgar three hours ago from his home, in Recursos Hidráulicos in Ecatepec, to his work in Iztapalapa.
He is one more user of Line 3 of the Metro, from the Indios Verdes station to Guerrero.
Although anomalies are recurring in the service, such as open doors when the convoy is moving, smoke and shortfalls, use this route because it is faster.
Yesterday, he boarded the convoy in the penultimate car, occupying the individual seat at the beginning of it.
He recalled that they left the Potrero station towards La Raza, it was in the tunnel that the convoy stopped. Subsequently, he felt a strong shaking that threw him from his place.
“Fortunately, I’m fine, not like others who were pressed. Due to the blow I injured my left arm and leg.
In a video that he filmed with his cell phone, once he was able to sit up, he showed how part of the wagon’s structure had folded into place.
Also, nervousness was perceived in the other users who, like him, did not know exactly what had happened.
“All that mother, the entire dashboard, was crushed. I came there (in the seat), before everything did not fall on me,” he narrated in the video that he showed REFORMA.
María Luisa was one of the injured who waited for more than an hour and a half on the sidewalk next to an ambulance, with her head resting on a backpack, to be taken to a hospital.
Although he walked off the tracks and was able to get on the platform, halfway there he couldn’t take it anymore.
Strong pain in her hip and legs immobilized her, so she got out with the help of police officers and people who carried her outside. She was traveling in the convoy that collided with the other in the tunnel, heading towards the University.
Araceli was another of the injured users. She was traveling alone in the carriage up front when her train collided with another and, then, everything went dark.
“As I was talking on the phone, I just heard the impact, I didn’t know anything from there, everything got ugly,” he said, trembling.
Araceli assured that she did not remember anything about the accident, neither how she left the station nor what the medical personnel told her about her injuries.
“Everything was dark when I started bleeding, but I didn’t know why,” she said.
And in order to find her aunt, Marisol Valdez circumvented part of the security and entered the accident area through Line 5 of the Metro.
Ana María Castillo, 53, contacted her work through another person to report what had happened and that is why they managed to locate her.
“She was going to work, from Indios Verdes to the University, she was going to go all the way. From her cell phone, a young lady answered the phone and said that my aunt was disoriented,” Marisol said.
