A woman and a man, a friend of her partner, died in the early hours of last Friday in a
fatal accident on the 25 de Mayo highway
, when a van carrying passengers on the Metrobús lane ran over them after they got out of the car in middle of a discussion.
In the last hours, the shocking video of the tragic crash was released.
The recording lasts 33 seconds.
The victims seem to be discussing one of the containment barriers of the Metrobús lane, while a van approaches a few meters away.
They both walk towards the center of the exclusive lane and the passenger vehicle makes a maneuver to try to avoid them.
He does not succeed and
the two are fired
.
Moments before the accident, on the other side of the highway,
a patrol car also appears
that stops its march on the fast track.
He had been alerted to 911 about the presence of two people in a prohibited area.
The troops get off at the exact moment of impact, so they
cannot avoid the tragedy
.
After the collision, they help the victims.
seconds before impact.
The episode occurred around 6:30 a.m.
at the height of Carabobo street
.
A Peugeot 207 in which the driver José Francisco Valderrama Gordillo (27), his partner Janneth Rocha Cauna (30) and a friend Miguel Ángel Torrico (34) were traveling stopped their march.
The reason was that
Valderrama was arguing with his girlfriend, who got out of the car
.
The fight started after they had gone dancing.
They had drunk alcohol.
The dialogue rose in tone until the woman, mother of a girl, decided to get out of the vehicle.
She walked on the Carabobo ascent to the highway and her partner's friend followed her when she crossed to the Metrobús lane, where they were run over by the passenger van of the company La Medalla, which was heading to the center of Buenos Aires.
Janneth Rocha Cauna (30) got out of the car after an argument with her partner.
Torrico and Rocha Cauna died instantly
, as confirmed by medical personnel from the Emergency Medical Care Service (SAME) who arrived at the scene.
The victims were from Bolivia.
She lived in the 1-11-14 neighborhood of Bajo Flores and he in the Charrúa neighborhood.
Valderrama, who is dedicated to car and motorcycle repair, told the police that he had also wanted to get out but took a long time trying to accommodate the car.
When he saw that his friend and his girlfriend had gone to the Metrobús, he tried to get there, but there was already a patrol car due to the call of some witnesses to 911 seconds after the accident had occurred.
Upon seeing the sequence, the man suffered a nervous breakdown and had to be assisted.
Miguel Ángel Torrico (34), the friend of the couple who also died.
The van driver, identified as Oscar Alfredo Farina (60), had been working at the company since December 2019. He was arrested and charged with manslaughter.
The case is processed in the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 9, in charge of magistrate Martín Sebastián Peluso.
The farewell of relatives
The accident occurred on the Metrobús lane of the 25 de Mayo highway.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger
The abrupt deaths of Janneth and Miguel Ángel during the early hours of last Friday flooded social networks with
messages of affection and pain.
"My little sister, why did you leave, I couldn't tell you how much I love you, I'm in shock, we couldn't say goodbye, I know you're with God, you were a very good sister,
always helping people
," she wrote on her Twitter account. Facebook, Faviola Rocha Cauna (28).
Her mother, Claudia Cauna, also fired her on Facebook: "Why did you leave me my princess, I don't know if she can bear the great pain that I have in my heart.
I can only ask for resignation to bear this pain.
God, how can I take it off to hold on."
Just a few hours before Janneth was going to dance with her partner, they had a romantic exchange on the networks, where they showed that love was still standing.
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