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Cluster of Weekend Motorcycle Crashes Across Argentina Leaves Multiple Dead and Injured

Authorities have opened investigations, citing negative alcohol tests in some cases alongside juvenile prosecution in La Plata.

Overview

  • In Maipú, Mendoza, Yoel Maximiliano Ochoa, 25, died after a collision with a Línea 830 bus, with the SEC confirming the death and the bus driver’s alcohol test reported negative.
  • In Lavalle, Mendoza, Franco Jeremías Ontiveros, 19, fatally struck the rear of a Mercedes Benz truck parked on the banquina, and the truck driver’s blood alcohol result was 0.0 g/L.
  • In Coronel Vidal, Buenos Aires province, two motorcycles crashed into a lowered train barrier, leaving one rider dead, another gravely injured, and a passenger with minor trauma, with the barrier and alarms reported operational.
  • In La Plata, a 15-year-old performing a wheelie hit two girls aged six months and 13, later presented to police with his mother, and the case was labeled lesiones culposas under UFI del Joven N°1 led by fiscal Carmen Ibarra.
  • In Guaymallén, Mendoza, a separate early-morning crash left a 38-year-old motorcyclist with a leg amputation after impact with a Volkswagen Nivus, and the car driver’s alcohol test was negative.