Overview

• Peru’s Tarma prosecutor’s office launched an involuntary homicide investigation and placed the bus driver in preventive detention after at least 18 people died and over 30 were injured on the Lima–La Merced route.
• The Superintendencia de Transporte Terrestre (Sutrán) suspended the bus’s certification while forensic teams inspect potential mechanical failures and roadway factors as more than 30 wounded remain hospitalized.
• In Río Negro, rescue operations concluded after a Volkswagen Gol veered into oncoming lanes during a snowstorm and collided head-on with a Mercedes-Benz truck, killing four members of a Pampean family.
• Ruta Nacional 151 near Catriel was intermittently closed for body removal and evidence collection under judicial supervision, and the truck driver was reported uninjured.
• Local associations and residents are pressing authorities for urgent repaving and enhanced winter maintenance on rural highways to avert future tragedies.