The polo player who hit and killed said the pedestrian “crossed badly” and denied speeding in his vehicle.

Cruz Novillo Astrada, a well-known 24-year-old polo player, ran over and killed a pedestrian when he was driving his truck on 9 de Julio Avenue and entering the link with the Illia Highway. The event occurred this Sunday, September 17 in the early hours of the morning and was recorded by a camera in the area. The polo player testified by Zoom before Judge Carlos Bruniard, and then his lawyer Rafael Cúneo Libarona requested the release of his client, who is accused of culpable homicide. He answered about 80 questions from the court, the prosecution and the defense” and “denied his responsibility in the fact,” said a source who participated in the process, adding that “negative” the breathalyzer and narcotics tests carried out on blood and urine samples of Novillo Astrada.Although Novillo Astrada, 24, fled after the road accident, He turned himself in a few hours later at the sectional along with his mother and father, the truck and his lawyer, Rafael Cúneo Libarona.Cruz Novillo Astrada with his father. The lawyer confirmed that his client “started with the traffic light in green light”, while the pedestrian “was not authorized to cross”. In that sense, he maintained that the young man “got scared and went to the mother’s house.” According to police and judicial sources, the incident occurred this Sunday at dawn, around 5.20, on 9 de Julio Avenue, almost corner Arroyo, when the polo player was driving a Volkswagen Amarok truck, ran over the pedestrian and escaped. This Monday shocking images of the moment in which the polo player ran over the pedestrian were released, and they would coincide with what was declared by Cuneo Libarona.

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