A driver of bus line 103 was arrested after being accused of run over and murder a 78-year-old retiree. The event occurred on Thursday morning in the Buenos Aires town of Villa Madero, belonging to the La Matanza district.
The victim is a retiree identified as Olga Susana Cornachiolliwho was crossing the corner of the Vélez Sarsfield streets and Pedro de Mendoza avenue. The incident, which was recorded by security cameras in the area, is being investigated by the Alejandra Garciabelonging to the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) No. 8 of The Slaughter.
The tragic road accident
In the shocking images recorded by the security cameras in the area, it can be seen how the bus turned and took the woman bywho lost his life instantly. After what happened, the driver, identified as Saúl Pedro Domínguez Torrez, He was arrested by the justice system.
The incident took place around 10 in the morning and involved the internal 50 of bus line 103. According to relatives of the murdered woman, the bus driver braked “at 40 meters because the passengers warned him“.
In the video released, it is not observed that the bus driver tried to stop the vehicle before hitting the woman who was crossed the final stretch of the pedestrian path. According to witnesses, the retiree had gone shopping when she was attacked.
“I don’t know what could have happened, but surely it wasn’t my aunt’s fault”, assured the woman’s nephew in television statements. In addition, the relative described the victim as “a woman who had won the battle against breast cancer and who took care of her two older sisters, aged 85 and 90, who have motor difficulties.”
According to the information published by Primer Plano Online, the case was left in the hands of the prosecutor Alejandra Garciabelonging to the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) No. 8 of La Matanza. The authorities determined the immediate driver’s arrest under accusation for allegedly having committed the crime of manslaughter.
The Justice investigation after the death of the woman
After what happened, the prosecutor ordered that the young driver be subjected to a breathalyzer test and a toxicological examinationwith the aim of elucidating if his senses were altered. As confirmed in the first studies, Domínguez Torrez did not have alcohol in his blood, although he still It remains to know the results of the second examination that was performed on him.
From the Noticias Argentinas agency they anticipated that the bus driver could face a sentence of between six months to five years in prisonin the event that he were found guilty of the charge for which he is accused. The driver is charged with the crime of “wrongful homicide.”
However, The penalty could be increased from three to six years in prison. if the authorities verify that the driver did not try to help the victim after the incident. The sentence can also be increased if it is proven that the driver was under the effects of narcotics.
Faced with the tragic road accident, the residents of Villa Madero They reported the lack of traffic lights at the intersection of the streets where the incident occurred and they warned that the area represents a danger to pedestrians due to traffic of cars, motorcycles, buses, bicycles, etc. One of the residents of the place stated: “We have been asking for a traffic light for 20 years, in the plans of the municipality of Tapiales – it appears that – there is a traffic light here, but the traffic light never came on”.
Source: Ambito
