Tiago Palaciosfootballer who yesterday won the League Cup with Estudiantes de La Platawas involved in a strong crash this morning in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Retiro, when hitting the pump of a service station. A few hours after the accident, it was found that the forward was driving drunk, with more than triple what is allowed for a private driver in CABA. In his attempt to avoid the impact, A player was injured and had to be hospitalized.
In response to the query of InfobaePolice sources stated that the road accident occurred at a Shell service station located on Paseo del Bajo and the Illia highway. There, for reasons that are still unknown, Palacios crashed his white Jeep Compass Limited truck into pump number 6.
Despite the collision, Palacios exited the vehicle under his own power, unscathedwhile an employee suffered trauma to both legs and was transported in a SAME ambulance to the Fernandez hospital.
Alberto Crescentihead of SAME, spoke with the channel TyC Sports and assured that Palacios was traveling with a companion, and both refused to be transferred to a health center. “I can’t force them to be transferred,” she explained.
According to witness testimonies collected by police personnel, the employee was injured while doing everything possible to avoid the imminent collision. According to preliminary information, Palacios initially hit the sign that displays fuel prices, then against a cone and, finally, against one of the pumps.
Around 11 in the morning, and by order of the East Flagrancy Unit, attended today by the Dr. Horacio Peix, Palacios was subjected to a breathalyzer test and a narco test. The first of the tests gave a positive result, since the attacker from the La Plata team was circulating with 1.84 grams per liter of bloodwhen the maximum allowed for a private driver in CABA is 0.50 gr/l.
In addition, Dr. Peix ordered that tests be carried out on the vehicle at the scene.
City Firefighters personnel worked at the scene to prevent a possible fire in Palacios’ vehicle, which would have implied an extremely greater risk as it was a service station.
Palaces, of 23 years, joined “Pincha” in February of this year, from Montevideo City Torque, and quickly earned a place in coach Eduardo Domínguez’s starting team. In fact, the winger started in the three games that the La Plata team played in the final phase of the League Cup.
According to the newspaper The day from La Plata, the Estudiantes team landed around midnight on a private plane that took them from Santiago del Estero to the city of Buenos Aires, and around 2 in the morning they arrived at the City Bell property.
