09/02/2021 15:32
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 09/02/2021 3:32 PM
In a serious act of recklessness at the wheel, a truck overturned in Mendoza and
destroyed the eight trucks
it had in its trailer.
Witnesses affirm that he was going at high speed, on a mountain route.
After this fact, a previous video was known in which the same truck
circulates the wrong way and almost does not hit a car
.
The accident occurred this Thursday morning
on National Route 7 at kilometer 1,180
, in Polvaredas, a town located in the Las Heras Department.
Minutes before half past nine, the police were alerted to the overturning of a Mercedes Benz truck carrying eight burgundy Toyota Hilux trucks.
According to the local media
Los Andes
, some witnesses witnessed the return and denounced that the driver was
circulating at high speed
and that, when he reached the Cortaderas bridge where there is a curve, he fell off the ravine, causing
one of the trucks to fall over the precipice.
.
Both the largest vehicle and the other 0km units were scattered throughout the route, while
the 39-year-old driver of Chilean nationality was injured.
The truck occupied the entire width of the route that was cut off to traffic.
Photo: Los Andes newspaper
When an ambulance from the Coordinated Emergency Service (SEC) arrived, the man was transferred to the Lagomaggiore hospital in the city of Mendoza
with moderate multiple injuries.
Traffic was
completely cut off
in the area because both the trucks, which resulted in total damage, and the truck were traversed throughout the road, causing passage through the highway to be disabled until around eleven o'clock in the morning.
All eight trucks were completely destroyed.
Photo: Los Andes newspaper
Hours later, on social networks, a video filmed on Sunday was released where the same truck is seen driving
past cars, in areas of double yellow lines.
Even a car coming from the opposite direction got to avoid him in time.
"The car comes from the front"
, a woman who was traveling with a man who was overtaken by the truck is heard exclaiming and filmed the exact moment.
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