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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2007 
Mexico Bus Skids Off Cliff, Kills Nine
 Reuters
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Mexico City – A bus fell down a 328-feet (100-meter)-high cliff in western Mexico, killing nine passengers and injuring 25, emergency workers said Tuesday.
The accident occurred on Monday evening in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, when the bus was hit by a van and knocked off the road, a local Red Cross official said.
Emergency workers worked until dawn and survivors were taken to nearby hospitals.
The bus had been rented by a private group from the southern state of Jalisco that was on its way home after visiting the beach town of Guayabitos in Nayarit state.
Mexico's hazardous roads mean fatal bus accidents are common.
Reporting by Armando Tovar, editing by Stuart Grudgings
Mexico Bus Crash Kills 7; Injures 21
Annie Simoy - AHN News
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Mexico City, Mexico - About seven day-trippers, including three children, died and 21 were injured when their bus fell down the 160-meter narrow valley after colliding with a car in Nayarit, east of Mexico on Monday night.
The group was on their way back from a day at the beach when a car swerved at the bus' lane on the Tepic-Puerto Vallarta Highway that resulted to a deadly crash.
Passengers of the bus were day-trippers from Nayarit's Los Ayala Beach. They were on their way home to Guadalajara, capital of western Mexican state Jalisco.
The rescue work was difficult due to the steep cliff with several bodies around the wreckage.
The 21 injured people were brought to hospitals in Tepic, Nayarit state capital. About 8 of the casualties were seriously injured.
The same incident happened in September that killed 17 people when a bus fell off a mountain in Puerto Vallarta route to Guadalajara. |
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