Overview
- The crash happened around 6:30 a.m. on the General Paz collector at Griveo in Villa Devoto, in the direction of the Río de la Plata.
- SAME reported about 19 people injured with polytrauma, cuts and cervical whiplash, and all were assessed as out of danger.
- Initial accounts indicate the refrigerated truck hit the rear of the Line 117 bus, shattering windows as the truck pushed into the back of the unit.
- Emergency teams established triage and deployed multiple ambulances, transporting patients to Zubizarreta, Pirovano and Vélez Sársfield hospitals.
- Police kept the collector closed to remove damaged vehicles and address a fuel leak from the truck, and traffic investigators opened a preliminary probe into the cause.