MEXICO CITY (AP) — A road accident Friday involving an SUV carrying aides to Claudia Sheinbaum, which won Mexico’s presidential election on June 2, resulted in at least one death. Sheinbaum was not injured.
Sheinbaum’s spokesman said the advanced car struck another vehicle on a highway in the northern state of Coahuila and that one person in the other car died. Several of Sheinbaum’s aides were being treated for injuries sustained in the crash.
Sheinbaum was traveling in another vehicle in the convoy directly behind the advance car and was not injured. Although she has not yet been formally declared president-elect, she won by a wide margin and a formal declaration of her victory is expected soon.
The accident happened near the city of Monclova, Coahuila, near where Sheinbaum was supposed to accompany President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on his first post-election trip, observing efforts to recover the remains of 63 miners killed in a 2006 coal mine accident.
Mexican authorities said this week that they found the remains of some miners at the Pasta de Conchos mine, located about 140 kilometers north of Monclova.
Sheinbaum belongs to López Obrador’s Morena party. López Obrador, who leaves office on September 30, has long used his weekends to visit federal projects in outlying states, while Sheinbaum’s political career has been largely confined to Mexico City.
Sheinbaum and López Obrador arrived later and spoke at a meeting near the old mine where recovery efforts are taking place.
