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Tragedy in Mendoza: a young cyclist grabbed a soda truck, fell and was crushed to death

2023-02-20T12:49:05.970Z


The 20-year-old was traveling holding onto one of the vehicle's railings when he lost his balance. A cyclist died in the Mendoza town of Coquimbito when he was pulled by a truck that sold soda, lost his balance and fell under the vehicle . The event occurred minutes after 9:00 p.m. on Saturday in the town of the department of Maipú, when Tobías Alejo Arce, 20, was riding his bicycle holding onto one of the railings of a Mercedes Benz truck dedicated to the local distribution of soda. Apparent


A

cyclist died

in the Mendoza town of Coquimbito when he was pulled by a truck that sold soda, lost his balance and

fell under the vehicle

.

The event occurred minutes after 9:00 p.m. on Saturday in the town of the department of Maipú, when Tobías Alejo Arce, 20,

was riding his bicycle holding onto one of the railings

of a Mercedes Benz truck dedicated to the local distribution of soda.

Apparently, Arce

was a friend of the truck driver

-a man in his 40s whose identity was not provided-, with whom he had agreed to travel that way while they were driving down Miter de Coquimbito street (in front of the Peñaflor Bodega ) in an east-west direction.

According to the first testimonies collected at the scene, the cyclist

made a bad maneuver and lost control of his bicycle

, for which he fell to the asphalt and could not avoid being run over by the rear wheels of the truck, which caused his death. snapshot.

The cyclist died instantly when he was run over by the rear wheels of the truck.

Photo: courtesy of El Sol newspaper.

The Prosecutor's Office No. 10 of the Police Station intervened in the event.

10th, which ordered the truck driver to be tested for alcohol - which returned a negative result - and labeled the cause as "culpable homicide".

Two dead in frontal collision near the Cordillera

A motorcyclist and his companion died

on Sunday afternoon on Route 7, near Polvaredas,

in the middle of the high mountain range

and on the way to Chile, when they collided head-on with a truck coming from the opposite direction.

The fatal accident occurred after 4:00 p.m. on Sunday on route 7 kilometer 1205, in Curva del Tiempo, two kilometers west of Punta de Vacas, in the department of Luján de Cuyo.

The event happened when a motorcycle was traveling from west to east and for reasons that are trying to be established

 it collided with a Scorpio Mahindra truck that was coming in the opposite direction

.

The occupants of the motorcycle -a man and a woman who have not yet been identified- were lying on the road and died on the spot, according to doctors from the SEC (Coordinated Emergency Service).

For his part, the driver of the truck, identified as CV (49 years old) was transferred to the Uspallata Hospital, and diagnosed with multiple multiple injuries.

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Source: clarin

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