Road and rail

27.2, head on collision, injuries

Argentina: two trains crashed head-on in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, injuring over 20 people. The accident occurred on a railway bridge in the upscale district of Palermo. According to railway officers, a cargo train began heading for the terminal in Retiro after dropping two boxcars at a train station on the bridge, but was rammed by an oncoming passenger train coming from downtown Buenos Aires to the suburbs. A third passenger train travelling in the opposite direction also banged into the containers but none of its passengers were injured.