A fatal week for Mendoza in terms of traffic accidents. Yesterday the Mendoza routes took on a new life. One death was the result of a strong head-on collision between a Chevrolet Corsa and a Volkswagen Senda, cars in which a total of eight people were traveling.
The accident occurred in the early hours of Sunday on Route 88, in the department of Uco Valley of Tupungato. After the tragic accident, they found that the driver of the Corsa had a blood alcohol level of 1.13 grams per liter.
Died after colliding with a horse
Also in the Uco Valley, more precisely in Colonia Las Rosas, department of Tunuyán, was the scene of a tragic event during the night of last Thursday. A 65-year-old man crashed his motorcycle into a horse and died. The man was on his motorcycle Honda 150, official sources confirmed, and for reasons that are being tried to establish, it hit the animal. The impact was so strong that the unfortunate subject died.
Two trucks collided head-on
This Friday, around 5 in the morning, on Route 7, KM 880, Desaguadero height, La Paz, two trucks collided. One of the truck drivers was trapped. The accident was caused by two trucks that were traveling in the same direction from the East to the West.
According to what was anticipated by personnel involved in the incident, a Mercedes Benz truck, driven by Carlos Saavedra, a native of the province of Córdoba, hit another Chevrolet truck driven by Matías Falcón, a native of the town of Medrano, in the rear. in the department of Junín.
As a result of the accident, the driver from the province of Córdoba He was trapped inside the cabin of the truck and had to be rescued by firefighter personnel from the province of Mendoza and then taken to the Perrupato hospital with serious injuries but out of danger.
A teenager killed himself in Maipú
The week had started with a tragedy. It was last Monday. A 14-year-old teenager lost his life when the truck he was driving overturned on the streets of the Fray Luis Beltrán neighborhood in the department of Maipú.
The serious incident occurred after 7 p.m. when local residents reported that a Toyota Hilux lost control and overturned after violently hitting a pole on Santa María Street and ended up with a strong impact against a wall of a home in the area. Great was the surprise of those who first came to help the occupants when they found two minors.
At the wheel was a 14-year-old boy who, due to the severity of his injuries, lost his life at the scene of the accident, while his 13-year-old companion was rushed to the Notti hospital where he was admitted with several traumas that required his admission to that hospital.
The fact that worries the provincial authorities is that so far this year There are already 87 fatalities in traffic accidents.
