19 dead, scores hurt in Mexico bus crash

At least 19 people have been killed and 62 others injured in a deadly highway collision in the southeastern Mexican State of Chiapas. Early reports say that one bus was about to overtake another vehicle when it collided with another incoming bus. The Chiapas' Department of Civil Protection (DPC) said in a statement on Friday that eleven women and two children are amongst the dead. Luis Manuel Garcia, Civil Protection official said, "It was a head on collision and emergency teams arrived at the scene immediately to rescue the injured, and they have been taken to different hospitals in Tuzla Gutierrez and in Cintalapa, Chiapas." The accident took place on a highway near the border town of Ocozocoautla just across the Guatemalan border. Reckless driving and poor road conditions are among the key reasons for driving casualties in Mexico.