2011 Flores rail crash | |
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Details | |
Date | 13 September 2011 |
Location | Flores, Buenos Aires |
Coordinates | 34°37′39″S 58°27′54″W / 34.62750°S 58.46500°W |
Country | Argentina |
Line | Sarmiento Line |
Operator | Trenes de Buenos Aires |
Incident type | (Part 1) grade crossing accident (Part 2) Head-on collision |
Cause | Bus driver ignored level crossing warning signals |
Statistics | |
Trains | 2 (and 1 bus) |
Deaths | 11 |
Injured | 228 |
The 2011 Flores rail crash occurred at 06.23 ART on 13 September 2011 when a bus on a level crossing at Flores railway station, in the Flores barrio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was hit by a train on the Sarmiento Line, heading for Moreno. The accident caused that same train to collide into another one as it derailed.[1]
It is regarded as the worst train accident in Buenos Aires within 50 years.[2]
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