Overview

• About 15 vehicles crashed on the Puente General Manuel Belgrano around 4 p.m. Friday, cutting traffic between Resistencia and Corrientes for hours before authorities reopened the crossing Saturday morning.
• Juan Carlos Pérez, a 57-year-old motorcyclist, died at the Hospital Escuela after being rescued from the bridge; reports list multiple additional injuries with varying counts.
• The truck driver, identified as 26-year-old Nahuel Ruiz, told authorities he lost brakes; a fiscal opened a case, ordered technical inspections, and investigators are reviewing bridge security video.
• Emergency crews from Bomberos, Policía Caminera, and Gendarmería responded, removed damaged vehicles, mitigated fuel spills, and noted two cars nearly went over the Paraná River.
• In separate incidents the same period, two brothers died in a motorcycle–truck crash in Camaná, Peru (the truck driver was detained), a physician died in a frontal collision on Ruta 11, a cyclist was killed in Lavalle with the driver testing negative for alcohol, and a police officer died in Merlo after a dooring fall led to a bus impact.