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SAN CARLOS DE BARILOCHE.- Carlos Artur De Peder Da Silva, 53 years old, the Brazilian truck driver charged with the four deaths that occurred on Route 40 two weeks ago, must stay in this city. From the prosecutor’s office Villa La Angostura seek to guarantee that the case reaches trial.
The crash in which four people died occurred on June 1 around 6:00 p.m., during a day in which a lot of snow fell in the region: the accused was driving a truck with an unloaded semi-trailer and was heading towards San Carlos de Bariloche. In the Fiat Strada truck that was hit were the brothers Exequiel (31) and Lisandro Linares (29), and their children Tahiel (12) and Martina (6), who died instantly. The impact occurred at kilometer 2063 of Route 40.
Two days after the incident, the prosecutor in the case Adrián de Lillo filed charges against the professional driver considering that carried out a “reckless and illegal” maneuver that caused the fatal incident.
During the charging hearing, De Lillo indicated that heThe truck driver “operated the motor vehicle under his command in a reckless and illegal manner, “by not having observed the necessary care and prevention, as a result of which a collision with another vehicle occurred.”
The prosecutor added that De Peder Da Silva “created an impermissible risk when he maneuvered in an illegal manner, by not respecting traffic signs and disobeying the mandatory horizontal double yellow line marking on the road.”
He added that the accused “he carried out a maneuver to his left, causing him to enter the opposite lane of Route 40, thus invading the circulation space of the truck. that was circulating in the opposite direction.” This maneuver is what, in the opinion of the prosecution, generated the head-on collision between the truck and the van, and caused the death of the four members of the Linares family.
After recounting the theory of the case, De Lillo framed the accusation as the crime of manslaughter, caused by the reckless driving of a motor vehicle.aggravated by the number of fatalities.
In addition, De Lillo asked Judge Bibiana Ojeda to impose preventive detention for the Brazilian driver, because he is a defendant of another nationality who has no roots or residence in the country. In any case, the judge rejected the preventive detention requested by the prosecutor and set the investigation period at 4 months.
Instead, Ojeda issued a ban on leaving the country for the accused and, at the request of the defense, ordered that the accused establish a domicile in Bariloche, where he must appear every day at a police station.
This week, the defense requested that the truck driver be able to return to his country. The official defender Sol Valero proposed that De Peder Da Silva be forced to go to Argentina or sign in an entity in Londrina, where the accused has his domicile. The request was rejected by Judge Ignacio Pombo and the measures ordered in early June by Ojeda remained in force.
The Prosecutor’s Office explained that it is key for the man to remain in this city while the investigation progresses. In fact, the accident expert has not yet finalized his report.
