El País Editorial
The Argentine driver of a van, Nicolas Roccawill be accused by the Prosecutor’s Office of committing a crime of qualified culpable homicide for the death of two Argentine citizens and the injury of two other young women in a car accident occurred on January 4, 2023 on route 104 at the height of Springs (Maldonado). The prosecutor of the case, Sebastian Robleswill ask the Justice for an eight-year sentence for Rocca for colliding head-on with a vehicle carrying four young Argentine women, a source in the case told El País.
Three of the victims are represented by the lawyer Andres Ojeda and the fourth for Jorge Barrera.
On February 14, 2023, Rocca was formalized by the judge Ana Maria Guzman for the aforementioned crimes. Guzmán ordered that the Argentine citizen remain in prison for 120 days. The sentence was served at an address set by Rocca.
As reported by El País on February 17, 2023, the official technical expertise of road accidentology He said that the truck driven by Rocca was the one that invaded the lane of the car driven by the Argentine Josefina Ferrerowho died in the accident along with a friend who was sitting in the passenger seat.
Photo: Ricardo Figueredo
Rocca’s lawyers, Pablo Donnagelo and Ignacio Duranargued that the Argentine had not crossed the path at the time of the crash.
Toxicology tests for the drivers involved in the head-on crash came back positive for both parties. According to the expert report, Ferrero had consumed cocaine, methamphetamine, ketamine, ecstasy and cannabis at the moment of colliding head-on with Rocca’s truck. Rocca’s blood test detected the presence of methamphetamine (MDMA) and morphine (administered in medicinal form). Both drivers had alcohol in their blood.
