Sheinbaum uninjured after car accident with her motorcade

A 94-year-old woman died on Friday in a car accident in Coahuila involving two vehicles, one of which was part of the convoy of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum.

The accident occurred late Friday morning on the Sabinas-Monclova highway in the northern border state.

According to members of the president-elect’s team, the woman who was killed was traveling in “the other vehicle” and not in the one that was part of Sheinbaum’s convoy.

Sheinbaum, who was on her way to San Juan de Sabinas to attend an event with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, arrived at the scene shortly after the accident and got out to check on the well-being of those involved.

Rescue workers were dispatched to the car accident. Both vehicles involved were SUVs. In addition to the fatality, there was at least one injured person.

“We deeply regret that a person in the other vehicle died,” Sheinbaum’s team said in a statement.

The mayor of Monclova, the municipality where the accident occurred, later stated that the dead woman was a 94-year-old woman from the area.

Sheinbaum reportedly said the members of her team involved in the accident were fine but were taken to the hospital for evaluation.

Mario Alberto Dávila Delgado, the mayor of Monclova, said the accident occurred at an intersection between the highway and another road. The vehicle carrying the elderly woman was traveling at high speed and was unable to stop at the intersection, he said.

Sheinbaum flew from Mexico City to Monterrey on Friday morning and attended an event with López Obrador and other officials that afternoon to discuss a “justice plan for pasta de conchos.”

A methane explosion at the Pasta de Conchos mine in Coahuila in 2006 killed 65 miners, with only two bodies recovered. In 2019, López Obrador ordered an operation to recover the other 63 bodies, and this week the Interior Ministry announced the discovery of human remains in a shaft where 13 miners were likely working on the day of the accident.

With reports from El Universal and El País