Oscar Sívori, head of the Fiscal Unit of San Martín, in Mendoza, charged this noon for “culpable homicide in competition with serious and minor culpable injuries” to Alberto Escobar, driver of the bus that overturned yesterday in that province when transporting Boca fans, an accident in which a woman died and several passengers were injured.
Boca fans traveled to watch the game against Quilmes, who played last night at the Malvinas Argentinas stadium for the quarterfinals of the Argentine Cup.
The bus belongs to the company New Tours SRL, patent HRB412, and Escobar remained detained at the 12th police station. in investigation of the road accident.
The woman who died was identified as Paola Emilce Fleitas, 32 years old, domiciled in the Buenos Aires town of Virrey del Pino, a member of Boca Juniors. The Ribera club mourned her death and she made herself available to her family.
Provincial health authorities reported while still six people remained hospitalized, but without greater seriousness.
The accident occurred on National Route 7, 40 kilometers from the capital of Mendoza, in front of the racetrack in the city of San Martín. According to the first reports, a tire of the bus would have burst and the driver could not control the vehicle.
Regarding the causes of the accident, the prosecutor Sívori, in statements to Channel 7 of Mendoza, remarked that “there are suspicions” but that the final cause will be “shedded by the expertise” that derives from the work carried out by the scientific police in the place to be able to determine “what is it that caused the left tire of the bus to burst“and it was the presumed cause of the driver losing control of the micro.
The court official confirmed that “there was no intervention of a third party” on the mechanics of the road accident and explained that the collective “He crossed lanes and overturned on the side of the other road“.
