A woman lost control of the car and crashed head-on into a tree: she was traveling with her two children

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A 34-year-old mother and her children, 10 months and 6 years old had to be transferred to a health center after the car they were traveling in crashedin the early hours of this Tuesday, facing against a tree in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitution. The impact was so violent that the front of the vehicle was destroyed. The driver said that she was trapped by another vehicle and that when maneuvering to avoid the collision he got on the sidewalk.

The event took place in Luis Sáenz Peña at 1100, between Humberto Primo and San Juan. The car that was involved in the accident was a white Peugeot 208. The SAME evacuated the victims of the vehicle, who were then transferred to a private health center through their coverage although they were out of danger, the sources indicated. The driver was initially treated for whiplash and the oldest of the girls for facial trauma.

Experts from the Road Division of the City Police worked at the scene to record the consequences of the incident. When asked by members of the Neighborhood Police Station 1 C about the mechanics of the accident, the driver of the Peugeot said that she was trapped by a Nissan vehicle and that when maneuvering to avoid the collision she climbed onto the sidewalk and hit the tree. . A breathalyzer test was requested on the woman, which resulted in 0.08 grams of alcohol in her blood, as this newspaper learned.

Earlier, at the intersection of Del Libertador and Callao avenues, a car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash. Due to the incident, the motorcyclist had to be transferred with multiple injuries to the Fernández Hospital. Traffic accidents are increasingly recurrent in the city of Buenos Aires. According to information provided by SAME, Only yesterday they had to intervene in 51 incidents with victims.

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