Elements of the Investigative Police assured a man in the municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz, State of Mexico, while a woman was apprehended at the Venustiano Carranza mayor’s office.
He convoy driver 33 and the regulator in the security procedures of the Central Control Post of the Collective Transport System (STC) Meter were arrested for their probable responsibility in the train crash that occurred on March 10 at the station Tacubaya of Line 1.
The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office complied with the arrest warrants for the crimes of homicide, injury and property damage, all guilty, after the crash that left one deceased and 41 people injured.
According to the prosecutor’s office in the capital, the Public Ministry requested the arrest warrants after both public servants did not appear to appear after being notified on several occasions.
For this reason, elements of the Investigative Police (PDI) assured Alan “N” in the municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz, State of Mexico, while María “N” was apprehended at the Venustiano Carranza city hall.
The detainees were transferred to the North Male Preventive Prison and the Santa Martha Acatitla Women’s Center for Social Reintegration, respectively, where they are at the disposal of the control judge who requires them, who will determine their legal situation.
On March 31, Ulises Lara López, spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office, explained that when leaving the Tacubaya station bound for the Observatory station, the driver of convoy 33 received alerts on his control panel, in response to this, the security system The train acted by blocking automatically.
According to the Metro’s operating manuals, the driver was required to apply the braking of the convoy by means of the emergency parking ramp maneuver.
However, the regulator of the line did not instruct the driver to perform these measures, which involved keeping the convoy safely stopped, but instead instructed him to move forward.
The driver changed the mode from automatic piloting to limited manual, with the authorization of the Central Control Post regulator. Lara López explained that in this driving mode there is no train safety device.
From that moment on, for eight minutes, a video analyzed by the FGJ different people are seen entering and leaving the driver’s cabin, when the manuals indicate that at that time it should be put into manual braking, with shims in each wagon and evacuate the train.
He noted that, according to the black box record, it was also noted that the different maneuvers caused the air pressure in the braking system to be lost.
In those eight minutes, according to the protocols, the Central Control Post again had to order the parking brake of each wagon to be applied, evacuate the train, as well as warn in time the operator of convoy 38, who was in the Tacubaya station, which did not happen. (Ntx)
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