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Bus Strikes Line of Stopped Cars on General Paz Near Libertador, Injuring Driver

Authorities are investigating a possible brake failure that prompted ongoing lane closures.

Overview

  • The morning crash on Avenida General Paz in the Río de la Plata direction, just before the Avenida del Libertador exit, was captured on traffic cameras as a bus without passengers hit cars halted in congestion.
  • SAME treated multiple people at the scene, and a 50-year-old Volkswagen Bora driver was taken to Hospital Pirovano with polytraumas.
  • Police from Comisaría Vecinal 13B cut traffic near Arcos in Núñez to secure the area while medical teams worked.
  • The emergency deployment included six ambulances, four medical motorcycles, a triage unit and two rapid-response vehicles, according to official reports.
  • Media tallies of the damaged vehicles range from nine to more than ten, and investigators are reviewing footage as congestion stretches onto the Panamericana toward the Debenedetti exit.