The Uspallata Integrated Control Area suspended the departure of trucks to Christ the Redeemer. Authorities continue to investigate the reasons that caused the accident.
A serious accident It happened during the early hours of this Saturday in the route 7, province of Mendozaafter a truck lost control and overturned on a car that was traveling on the same road, which caused the death driver snapshot and five injured serious.
The incident took place a few meters before entering the tunnel 7/8 of the route, in a sector known as The Treeswhen Claudio Aguilarthe identified driver and employee of the Betina Caponi Transport company, lost control of the truck for unknown reasons, according to local newspaper UNO.
After driftthe truck hit a large part of the car bodywhich was traveling on the same road just a few meters ahead, and blocked the entrance and exit of the tunnel when it was crushed on one of the sides of the mountain.
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How many people were injured
He fatal accident tried the death of the driver at the scene and the five injured who identified themselves, were on board the Peugeot 207 and were apparently members of a same family coming from San Juan.
The victims are two adults and three minorsaccording to the same local media, and they were urgently transferred, with a reserved diagnosis but “serious injuries”, in an ambulance to the Humberto Notti hospitalsin the town of Guaymallén, and the Centralin the city of Mendoza.
The staff of Los Arboles Gendarmerie and of the Mendoza policewere the authorities in charge of assisting the wounded and carrying out the research to determine exactly how the accident occurred.
Traffic was completely disruptedthey advised not to go up the mountain as a precaution and the Integrated Control Area (ACI) of Uspallata suspended the departure of trucks to the passed Christ the Redeemer.
Source: Ambito
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