2025 Iztapalapa tank truck explosion
Deflagration of LP gas in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico
On 10 September 2025, at approximately 2:20 p.m. (local time), a liquefied petroleum gas tank truck, property of company Gas Silza, overturned and exploded on the La Concordia Highway Interchange in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, while containing 49,500 liters of LPG, causing the deaths of 32 people, and injuring 90 others.
In December 2025, Mexico City's Attorney General's Offices declared the official cause was loss of control over the vehicle due to excessive speeding in a high-speed turn.
Background
Mexico has experienced several accidents related to fuel transportation, particularly tanker truck accidents. One of the most serious incidents occurred in 2013, in Ecatepec de Morelos when a tank truck explosion killed 27 people and injured over 30 others. At the time, Mexican regulations allowed these vehicles to operate on two-lane highways with loads of up to 80 metric tons and lengths exceeding 30 meters (100 feet), in contrast to the U.S. limit for interstate highways of 40 tons. Following the accident, the Mexican government announced a reduction to these limits. However, the proliferation of makeshift housing near highways has contributed to such events generating more devastating consequences, both in terms of human and material losses.
Mexico City has been the recurring scene of explosions associated with the transportation of Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). In 2002, in Colonia del Valle, a Petróleos Mexicanos tanker truck transporting 20,000 liters of 87 octanes gasoline overturned and caused a large-scale fire, with flames exceeding ten meters in height.
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