And Trucker He overturned and died when he handled on Tuesday on the national route ° 40 and the neighbors They looted food that transported. The outrageous sequence was filmed in the video.
The fatal accident occurred between 8 and 9 am on Tuesday, when the victim drove for a section of pronounced curvesnear the bridge of the Mayoco stream, in the area of Epuyénabout 50 kilometers from Esquel.
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The victim, identified as Alejandro González, He had left the Andean region to Esquel and moved refrigerated products and echoes, mostly Frozen sausages and chickens.
The 39 -year -old man lost control of his truck scania brand, hit the guardrail and broke out on the side of the road.
The first investigations indicate that the native of the Rionegrina town of general Rocawho was traveling alone in the truck, He died practically on the spot.
The most outrageous was not the tragic death of the truck driver, but what followed later. Because many motorists who passed through the area stopped in the accident, but not to help, to Loot the food in the truck.
This was the truck after the shocking clash suffered on National Route No. 40. (Photo: Video/LU24 capture).
A video filmed by a driver of the Esquel Zonal Hospital showed the sequence in which many neighbors living around the area They took several frozen products.
The image is shocking: in the camera you can see how people ran to the truck and grabbed all the boxes that could then and then Load them in the boxes of their 4×4 trucks.
Anyway, the Police of Chubut quickly intervened to avoid greater incidents and confiscated food. Then He destroyed them according to food security protocols.
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The situation aroused the outrage of the police authorities themselves. The first to go out to express it was the general commissioner Andrés García who stressed that “It wasn’t people in need” the one that looted the truck.
The Chubut police chief denounced that it was “People who arrived in high -end vehicles “ To take food.
“The most serious thing is that They did not respect the tragedy of the moment. There was a deceased person and that did not care, ”criticized the officer, in dialogue with Radio Chubut.
Garcia also explained that the vehicle did not have police custody when the looting occurred, because The company had reported that they would take care and that the products were insured inside.
The neighbors loaded food in their 4×4 trucks. (Photo: Video/LU24 capture).
The authorities still They could not establish the causes that would have caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle.
“This is an elevated sector with the presence of curves and countercurvas,” described the head of the Regional Unit of the Esquel Police, Hugo Melipil.
The officer stated that the visibility conditions They could have influenced the accident, since it had not yet dawned at that time.
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Although there were no direct witnesses of the incident, some motorists who passed through the area alerted the incident authorities.
“The accident was reported after 8 in the morning through the Monitoring Center,” confirmed the head of the Regional Police Unit by indicating that “The traffic on the route was not interrupted, since the truck was out of the road. ”
The event generated a rapid response from emergency services, among which members of the Squeal Second Police Stationlos Volunteer Firefightersand the medical team of Hospital Zonal.
Experts from the Scientific Police To investigate the causes of the accident and determine if the driver was wearing the seat belt at the time of the overturn.
