Overview
- Authorities in Arequipa, Peru say a bus carrying mining workers fell about 50 meters near Cotahuasi, leaving three dead and roughly twenty injured, with transfers to Cotahuasi and Aplao for urgent care.
- In Naranjal, Veracruz a passenger bus with many students aboard tumbled into a ravine, with reports ranging from about 20 to 30 injured, at least 19 hospitalized and four with serious trauma as Protección Civil led rescues.
- On Argentina’s Ruta 9/34 near Río Juramento, a near‑frontal collision between a transfer ambulance and a car left one woman dead and at least four injured, prompting a full closure and forensic peritajes.
- A 46‑year‑old truck worker, identified as Darío Daniel Vignolo, died in San Basilio, Córdoba after being crushed while unhooking a trailer, and the local fiscalía assumed the investigation.
- Further incidents included an eight‑vehicle pileup on Madrid’s A‑42 with eight injured, a multi‑truck chain collision on the México–Guadalajara highway with only material damage, and a Neuquén rear‑end crash that injured four petroleum workers as police pursued a fleeing driver for an alcohol test.