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Radioactive‑Labeled Box Removed After Panamericana Crash as Authorities Advance Probes Across Multiple Road Disasters

Authorities coordinated hazardous‑materials response alongside active criminal and technical inquiries.

Overview

  • On Panamericana at km 14.90 in Vicente López, a car and a utility vehicle collided, the car burned, two people were hospitalized and specialists secured a box marked with a radioactive symbol; traffic fully reopened by 10:00.
  • After a separate fatal collision on the Panamericana Escobar branch, prosecutors opened a homicide culposo case against the truck driver; the victim was identified as Gabriel Gutiérrez, 58.
  • In Torreón, seven-year-old María Daniela remains in critical condition after a Nissan Altima struck the motorcycle she rode as a passenger; the 69-year-old driver was detained and turned over to the Ministerio Público.
  • In Mexico City’s colonia Obrera, a heavy truck overturned when the cover of a collector access box ruptured; Segiagua reported no damage to the underlying 1.52‑meter pipe and no injuries.
  • On Argentina’s Ruta Nacional 38 near El Pantanillo, dense roadside smoke led to a five‑vehicle chain crash with multiple hospitalizations; Ilda Rosa Rojas, 70, was admitted to intensive care with multiple fractures.