Nicholas Gonzalez boarded the Sarmiento train in Merlo at approximately 3:00 p.m. After a while, as he was sitting in the second-to-last car, he felt something Unusual movementIt was so strong that he thought something like a fire was happening. Nicholas is one of the passengers who was traveling on Tuesday on the train that derailed before reaching Liniers station.
“The hit was in the last car. It lasted for two minutes. Then… I broke the lock on the door and forced myself out.. People came running from behind, where the collision occurred. I got down without help and walked here alone. “There were people who needed help,” Nicholas recalls of the moment of derailment in an interview Clarion.
He did not suffer any injuries and was one of those who remained at the intersection of Gordillo Street and Avenida Rivadavia while ambulances continued to transport the injured from the scene of the accident. “Now I will return to my home in Merlo. I have already announced that I will not work.”
Like him, there are many people who were going to take the train at Liniers Station, but now have to use another route to return home.
Some take buses to the province, while others prefer to walk in the rain to Villa Loro or Ramos Mejía stations. Rivadavia Street was freed at 6 p.m., making traffic more fluid.
“I came from Caballito by bus,” says Lucia, a young woman who, like many others, is looking for another option. “I got here and saw what happened. Now I have arranged for them to come and take me by car to Ramos.”
Lennys Quispe is one of the neighbors watching from the side as the formation still lies on the tracks. He lives a few blocks away and was going to use the train to go to Once. But when he arrived in the afternoon, he learned of the derailment.
“This brings back old memories for once. Obviously there is not good maintenance, those of us who always travel the Sarmiento line know that before arriving in Once The light is always going out, or the brakes We wait a long time to get to the Once Station and we normalize everything when it should not be the case,” the woman comments in an interview with this newspaper.
He adds: “This was chaos. Imagine that people did not know where the buses stopped, the street was blocked and ambulances were passing all the time. It was terrible for those who were going to work or coming from work. I saw a lot of people heading towards Ciudadela, because there was no other way back.”
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The operation is due to the derailment of the Sarmiento train
At around 5:30 p.m., a convoy of SAME ambulances left the site of the derailment with people who had to be diverted. There are nine wounded who require treatment in hospital, but they do not have serious injuries.
Shortly before 6:00 p.m., Sarmiento trains began running from Once to Moreno, without stopping at Liniers, where transport employees and the Federal Police continue to do their work.
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