Overview
- Chihuahua prosecutors and Mexico’s migration agency confirmed six people died and two Salvadorans were injured when a trailer carrying steel sheets overturned on the Gómez Palacio–Jiménez highway, and they are searching for the driver and four accomplices who fled.
- The two survivors of the Chihuahua crash, identified as William Jeferson M., 23, and Marlyn Marisol C. M., 24, told authorities they boarded in Torreón bound for Ciudad Juárez and were told to hide in the trailer.
- In Lima’s San Martín de Porres, police identified the motorcyclist killed on the Panamericana Norte as 21-year-old Venezuelan Manuel Alejandro Motta Peralta, with witnesses reporting the initial driver fled as investigators work to establish responsibility.
- In Juliaca, Peru, 36-year-old Ronald Gregorio Ticona Coila died after a white pickup struck his motorcycle and fled, and police are using debris left on the road to identify the vehicle.
- In La Paz, Mexico, five people were injured when a rear-end collision sent a car onto the malecón sidewalk, and the mayor announced containment barriers and inspections, while in Mendoza, Argentina, an 82-year-old driver received house arrest with an electronic monitor after a red-light crash that killed 13-year-old cyclist Fausto Morcos and seriously injured another boy.