26 February 2012 Train driver 28 year old Marcos Cordoba claims that the brakes did not function and controllers did not heed his repeated warnings. The train carrying 1,000 never activated brakes which were later found to be working, and crashed past the buffers. Passengers were tossed to the floor, and many including the driver were trapped on the train and needed to be rescued by firefighters. Some riders were shouting “murderer” at the driver following the crash. 51 were killed and over 700 were injured. The driver, 28-year-old Marcos Antonio Córdoba, was taken into custody but later released by the investigating judge over the objections of the prosecutor after declaring under oath "I tried to brake twice, but the mechanism failed." He also activated the hand brake, which also failed. A judicial source said Cordoba told investigators: "At each station he advised the dispatcher by radio that he had problems with the brakes." He reportedly said he was told to keep going.
There were a number of other incidents in Buenos Aires train stations. In June 2012 a commuter train hit another train, killing three people and injuring 300. There was also a bus which appeared to deliberately crash through closed gates to hit a moving train like the bus in Canada which also drove through a closed gate to hit a moving train rather than stopping at the crossing.
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Related: Argentina Train Crashes Buffers Again Saturday 19 October 2013 Argentina at Buenos Aires Once station. The commuter train failed to stop as it arrived at Once station. It crashed the end buffer and crumpled between the floor and ceiling. It was the same station where 51 people were killed in a similar crash in 2012
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2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster, also known as the Once Tragedy, occurred on 22 February 2012, when a train crashed at Once Station (Spanish: Estación Once de Septiembre; IPA: [ˈonse]) in the Balvanera neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
There were about 1,000 passengers on board when the crowded eight-carriage train, whose working brakes were not activated, hit the buffers at the end of the line, crushing the motor carriage and the following two carriages, after approaching the station at a speed of 26 kilometres per hour (16 mph). Fifty-one people were killed and more than 700 were injured;[1] the dead and seriously injured were in the first two carriages,[3] which was packed with people who had moved to the front of the train to be near the station exit on arrival.
The Sarmiento Line, on which the incident occurred, is operated by Trenes de Buenos Aires (TBA). It was the second fatal accident on the line within six months, following the 2011 Flores rail crash, and the third deadliest train accident in Argentina's history, after the Benavidez rail disaster in 1970 (which left 142 dead and 368 injured) and the Estrella del Norte train accident in 1978 (which left 55 dead and an unknown number injured).[4]
- There was a train crash in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, on Saturday, when a trainfailed to brake properly at a stop. There were 99 people injured, many
Argentine train crash: Brake warning denied
An Argentine railway company has denied a driver's claims that he warned of brake problems prior to a crash that killed 51 people.
Driver Marcos Cordoba said he had called controllers "at every station" but was told to "carry on".
Trenes de Buenos Aires (TBA) has blamed the accident on what it called "human error".
More than 700 people were injured when the train slammed into buffers as it came into a Buenos Aires station.
"The train completed its route without there having been confirmed, or even reported, any irregularities, prior to the crash in the Once station," TBA said in a statement.
Driver Marcos Cordoba, 28, is being investigated by police in connection with the crash.
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