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Argentina Road Deaths Mount as Prosecutors Charge Merlo Drivers in Officer’s Fatal Crash

Prosecutors ordered peritajes, seized vehicles and advanced charges after multiple fatal crashes across several provinces.

Overview

  • In Merlo, police officer María Cecilia Linares, 39, died after her motorcycle struck an opened pickup door and she was then run over by a Linea 504 bus, with both drivers imputed for homicidio culposo y lesiones culposas and the vehicles seized for analysis.
  • Security-camera footage is being collected in the Merlo case, and the officer’s partner was hospitalized at Hospital Eva Perón with injuries.
  • On Ruta 11 near Costa Esmeralda, one man rescued from a Fiat Cronos died hours later at Hospital de Mar de Ajó, and UFID Nº11 of Mar del Tuyú took the case.
  • In Córdoba’s Altas Cumbres, Marcelo Rubén Dorao, 42, was found dead after his car plunged about 200 meters, with Bomberos, DUAR and ETAC conducting recovery and on-site forensic work.
  • On National Route 237 in Neuquén, a 33-year-old truck driver from Bariloche died trapped in his cab after the vehicle left the roadway and fell down an embankment, prompting emergency operations and traffic restrictions.