Overview
- The Camaná provincial prosecutor’s office requested nine months of preventive detention for Henrry Apaclla on charges of negligent homicide and negligent injuries.
- Investigators allege Apaclla’s pickup entered the opposite lane and struck an interprovincial bus, causing the driver to swerve and plunge into a ravine in Ocoña.
- The crash on the Panamericana Sur at kilometer 780 left 37 people dead and 25 injured, with the bus identified as unit VCG-962 of the Llamosas company.
- A police report cites an estimated blood‑alcohol concentration of 1.04 g/l for the accused driver, which prosecutors present as evidence of impaired driving.
- Prosecutors list witness statements and police records among their evidence and note a potential sentence of about eight years and six months if convicted.