Overview

• A bus en route from Lima to La Merced plunged down a 50-meter slope in Tarma province, killing at least 18 people and injuring around 30, prompting detention of driver Dante Llalli Chuchón and suspension of the vehicle’s operating license.
• French prosecutors in Clermont-Ferrand and the Prefecture of Puy-de-Dôme are investigating whether three rally spectators were standing in a red-taped restricted zone when a competitor’s car veered off course and struck them.
• In Catriel, Río Negro, a private Volkswagen Gol lost control during a snowstorm and collided head-on with a semi-trailer, killing two adults and two minors as local transit police and the Decentralized Prosecutor’s Office pursue culpable homicide charges.
• Santa Fe authorities have opened a culpable homicide investigation into the collision between a Santa Lucía long-distance bus and a truck on Route 11 near Nelson, where three people died and 17 were wounded, and ordered alcohol and narcotics screenings for the truck driver.
• These simultaneous probes highlight growing demands from affected communities for tighter spectator safeguards, improved rural road maintenance and stricter vehicle inspection protocols