Six injured by a chain crash between a truck and nine cars on the 25 de Mayo Highway

A truck and nine cars collided this morning on the 25 de Mayo Highway at the height of the descent to Boedo Avenue, producing a violent chain accident that left a balance of six injured of various considerations. The event occurred this Thursday morning, on the aforementioned Highway hand to the center of the City of Buenos Aires. After what happened, four SAME ambulances immediately went to the scene to assist the victims.” I passed the truck over the highway, it was coming by the slow hand 40 kilometers. We go down here, we stop at the traffic light and, when it stops us, I felt it from behind, it takes us all on,” he told LN+ about how one of the motorists was in the accident.” I ran out of brakes,” the truck driver confirmed minutes later in dialogue with the media. “I made recesses, I collided with the guardrail to see if I could stop it, but there was no case,” said the driver, who said he slowed down because otherwise it would have been “a disaster.” Alberto Crescenti, head of the aforementioned agency, reported that all the injured suffered whiplash, while he indicated that there are people who suffered more serious injuries. Meanwhile, it was noted that the injured were transferred to various health centers such as the Ramos Mejía, Santojanni and Argerich hospitals while the exit to Boedo Avenue was closed and delays of up to six kilometers were registered. Due to the fact that the helicopter of the emergency service also worked, all lanes of the fast track hand to the center were cut, which caused serious difficulties to circulate in that area. Around 8.15, the trace was released, but the descent was closed.

Original source in Spanish