Huge highway crash kills at least 19 in Mexico: a truck with no brakes crashed into a line of six vehicles at a tollbooth
Steph Deschamps / November 7, 2021
The accident occurred at a toll booth in the town of Chalco, on the highway that connects Mexico City to Puebla, 110 km south of the capital.
A truck without brakes hit a line of six vehicles, several of which caught fire. Among those killed was the truck driver, Capufe, the state agency that manages Mexico's federal highway system, said in a statement.
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