Overview
- Traffic over the Puente General Manuel Belgrano remains fully closed while crews remove multiple wrecked vehicles, according to Vialidad Nacional.
- Police sources and the truck driver’s account indicate a brake failure triggered impacts in both directions around 16:00.
- Emergency teams from fire brigades, Policía Caminera and Gendarmería Nacional extricated the injured and secured the scene to prevent fires and fuel hazards.
- Injury reports vary across outlets, with TN citing four people taken to Hospital Perrando and Los Andes reporting about 15 injured, including three in serious condition transferred to Hospital Escuela de Corrientes.
- Crónica later reported that a hospitalized motorcyclist died from injuries, a development that differs from earlier official statements that mentioned no fatalities.