Overview
- Roughly 56 people from Moreno, Morón and Ciudadela were on board a Turismo New Bus charter headed to the Encuentro de Hábitat Popular in Mar del Plata.
- Authorities report multiple injured—about 15 to 17—with some in critical condition, including patients transferred to Mar del Plata’s Interzonal hospital.
- Firefighters from General Pirán and Coronel Vidal, Aubasa ambulances and provincial road safety teams mounted a large rescue operation, with traffic reduced at km 325.
- Fiscalía 11 and the National Road Safety Agency opened an investigation with a toxicology test ordered for the driver, and the cause remains undetermined.
- Witness accounts describe loss of control after a curve near Pirán, and the bus came to rest on its right side on the central median around 8 a.m.