The driver who, angry at the price of the whiskey he was charged at a bowling alley, tried to tear down the premises with his truck will no longer be able to use that cargo vehicle to calm his tantrums. The National Road Safety Agency (ANSV) and the Buenos Aires Ministry of Transport suspended the driver's license.
The unusual reaction of the truck driver, which was recorded by cell phones of young people who were at the door of the bowling alley in Orense, Tres Arroyos, had almost immediate administrative consequences: the driver – about 30 years old – will not be able to continue with his work as a transporter because his license was disabled. The Volvo with which he rammed the façade of the premises will have a new driver or will be stored in a shed.
As explained in those agencies, he must perform a new psychophysical examination to recover that document. At the judicial level, there was less progress. The driver was never detained (they only apprehended him to calm him down in that early morning of fury) and the case processed in the prosecutor's office in charge of Carlos Facundo Lemble has just begun.
The Tres Arroyos prosecutor's office told Clarín that "we will take statements from witnesses and a survey of the premises will be made," but they clarified that "from the criminal point of view it is an extremely minor case." There were no injuries and hardly any masonry damage was found. It will be a lawsuit that must be resolved by the insurance company, they clarified.
The incident, as reported by this newspaper, occurred in the early hours of Sunday 21. In a night entertainment shop, the only one that works in Orense (550 kilometers southeast of Buenos Aires), everything seemed to turn out to be one more night. The trade was about to close, only the last groups of young people remained, known, the usual ones.
They threw him out of the bowling alley and crashed his truck into the premises, in Orense. Video capture
It was when an argument appeared at the bar that led to an unexpected, unusual event: after a customer was thrown out of the premises for a fight, he returned and tried to throw the building with a cargo truck.
As Clarín was able to reconstruct, the incident began when the truck driver who lives in San Cayetano (a town located 45 kilometers from the place) rebuked an employee in charge of serving drinks.
"Give me a whiskey. Here you go, I pay you, said the customer who – according to the store – had several glasses on him.
He gave her 500 pesos but the young woman in charge of the supply of drinks explained that this drink cost 1,000 pesos. There he began to rebuke her. He insulted her and started screaming until the bowling alley owner approached. The owner was also attacked, but in this case with more violence. The driver would have hit him with a trumpet that left him lying on the floor.
Then, among several people – including security personnel – they managed to get him out of the place. But the boy, went home, brought the Volvo truck, model 240 front, tried to collapse the access by making a cylinder head maneuver with the chassis.
The bowling alley "La Palma" is in an old building built almost a century ago. That name had right there the old trade that worked in that same property and was part of the first facilities to market agricultural machinery in this region that grew with the expansion of the chacarera activity.
The old shop was in front of the old railway station that ran through the southern part of the province of Buenos Aires. And it linked the ports of Bahía Blanca and Quequén.
Remodeled more than a decade ago, it is since then, the only place of nocturnal recreation of Orense, a town located on the Atlantic coast. The violent reaction of the truck driver who did not agree with the price of drinks disrupted the routine of the town's autumn Sunday.
"Having a driver on public roads with this type of attitude is a danger for everyone and that is why he was suspended," said Pablo Martínez Carignano, executive director of the ANSV. The Minister of Transport of Buenos Aires, Jorge D'Onofrio, declared: "We cannot allow this type of actions that put the lives of neighbors at risk. We work every day to consolidate safe streets and routes. Driving is a responsibility."
In the police substation of Orense they evaluate the injuries caused to the owner of the business and the person in charge of the custody. There were no other injuries, but some collateral damage: when he abandoned the onslaught he also ruined other cars parked near Alberti Avenue, which runs parallel and is in front of Route 72, the main access road to the town.
Orense has, in addition to some hectic nights, a seaside resort with extensive and serene beaches. In the town live just over 2,500 people and in summer the attraction is 17 kilometers, on the coast, in Punta Desnudez one of the three beaches of the Tres Arroyos party.
La Plata. Correspondent
MG
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