Overview
- Authorities say the crash occurred around 3:30 a.m. near kilometer 7 of Ruta Nacional 151 when a Renault Clio veered off the road, overturned, and landed semi-submerged in a fast-flowing irrigation canal.
- The occupants were coworkers returning from an end-of-year work gathering, with two getting out on their own and the rear-seat passenger trapped inside the vehicle.
- Bystanders and companions pulled the trapped man from the car and performed CPR before he was taken to the Hospital de Cipolletti, where he died hours later.
- Police administered a breath test to the 22-year-old driver that returned positive, and a judicial order placed him in custody at Comisaría 32.
- The vehicle was recovered and seized for pericial examinations as the Criminalistics Unit processes the scene under Unidad 32 to determine the crash dynamics and any potential charges.