Overview

• On Panamericana near km 14.9–15 in Vicente López, a car and a utility vehicle collided, the car caught fire, two people were hospitalized, and a box labeled as radioactive was removed by specialists; full traffic flow resumed by 10.
• Earlier on the Escobar branch of the same highway, motorist Gabriel Gutiérrez died after striking a truck stopped on the shoulder, and prosecutors opened a homicide culposo case against the truck driver.
• A chain collision on Argentina’s Route 38 attributed to dense roadside smoke left eleven injured; Ilda Rojas remains in intensive care as forensic work and cause assessments proceed.
• In Mexico, an eight-year-old hit by a motorcyclist in Atlixco is hospitalized with multiple fractures with the rider detained pending ministerial action, while in Torreón a seven-year-old passenger named María Daniela is in grave condition and the car driver was turned over to the Ministerio Público.
• In Spain, the Guardia Civil is pursuing a homicide imprudente case over a July crash in Ciudad Real after confirmatory lab tests found THC in the driver’s system, with the file sent to court.