Overview

• Mexico City’s health authority reported 21 deaths after the passing of Norma Chávez Ortega, with 27 people still hospitalized and 36 discharged.
• Preliminary findings from the Mexico City prosecutor’s office cite excess speed, two impacts, a roughly 40‑centimeter fracture in the container and a gas expansion of about 180 meters.
• Security‑camera footage published by Emeequis shows the tanker traveling at a regular speed seconds before the crash, prompting public dispute of the excess‑speed hypothesis.
• Transportadora Silza paid the driver’s funeral, pledged legal and financial support to his family and cooperation with authorities, and says it is reinforcing safety protocols.
• Insurers, coordinated by AMIS, have activated applicable policies and protocols, and the prosecutor issued photo bulletins to identify an unknown deceased man and a critically injured woman.