Natacha’s drama: she was driving home from a travel app, the driver crashed on the Pan-American highway and died

It was a few minutes before 6 o’clock on this bank holiday Monday when Natacha Estefania Palma he ordered a car through a travel app. The 29-year-old girl had to travel from the city of Buenos Aires to the Tigre district of Buenos Aires, where she lived. After asking for the car, the app notified him that a white Fiat Cronos, driven by Leonard Roa, I would go get her. Half an hour later, the 34-year-old driver, a Venezuelan national, was involved in a multiple collision on the Pan American highway: Natacha, your passenger is deceased.

The fatal episode, which involved four vehicles, took place around 6:30 a.m., at kilometer 17 of the Pan-American highway, in the direction of the province of Buenos Aires and a few meters from the Thames exit, in the municipality of Martínez. Although it was initially revealed that the driver of the car which started the accident was drunk, sources from the investigation told GlobeLiveMedia this was not the case: Roa’s breathalyzer, now accused of the crime of culpable homicidereturned a negative result.

It all started when Nestor Casanova, 68, found that a tire had exploded. The man, who was driving a white Ford Fiesta on the speedway of the Pan American Highway, put beacons, get out of the car and place an emergency triangle behind the vehicle to alert other drivers of damage. Paradoxically, the security measure ended up generating a chain accident which cost Natacha her life.

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According to the reconstruction carried out by the investigators, when Casanova’s white Ford Fiesta stopped on the highway, another car pulled up behind him, offering to help him. At this moment, a white Fiat Cronos appeared whose driver, identified as Jonathan Ezequiel Vaga (26), the “brush” and continued. Immediately afterwards, a second white Fiat Cronos appeared on the scene, driven by the driver of the Roa app and in which the victim was travelling: crashed squarely into the vehicle which was stopped due to damage.

Unlike Vaga, whose breathalyzer test came back positive with 2.14 grams of alcohol per liter of blood (four times what is allowed); Roa’s test, and that of the rest of the pilots, gave the result zero. These data, added to “the possibility of wide vision” available to the application pilot for the moment prevent the clear reasons for the accident from being established.

According to the owner of the white Ford Fiesta, as his car was stopped, he waved the rest of the drivers with his cellphone flashlight to avoid it. However, “The Fiat caught up with me”, said. And he added: “When I saw him coming, I ran. Miraculously, it didn’t hit or kill me. I only hurt my elbow.”

The case is being investigated as Culpable Homicide and has been left in charge of the Boulogne Functional Investigation and Trial Unit of the prosecution. Maria Paula Hertrigwho awaits the result of the autopsy to Natacha’s body for this Tuesday. After the forensic report, it will be known whether, for example, the victim was wearing a seat belt or not. At present, several clues indicate yes.

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“To begin with, none of the rear seat belts were unbuckled. In addition, a small laceration was detected on the young woman’s body, at the level of the neck, which could be the mark of the belt”, have– they explained to GlobeLiveMedia sources with access to the file.

Originally from Tunuyán, province of Mendoza, “Nati”, as she called herself in her networks, worked in the Northville College of Tiger and was vegan. After the impact, the 29-year-old was rushed to San Isidro Hospital. Once at the scene, he was placed in cardiorespiratory arrest. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) maneuvers were performed on him but, unfortunately, he died.

What will happen to the driver who was driving while intoxicated? as much as he could tell GlobeLiveMedia, you have an offense and a fine for driving with four times more alcohol per liter of blood than is allowed. In this regard, the Executive Director of the National Road Safety Agency, Pablo Martinez Carignanoreaffirmed the importance of zero alcohol law.

“We are fighting for the zero alcohol law to be approved in Argentina. More and more of us share the idea that you shouldn’t drink alcohol if you’re going to drive later,” he said on his social networks.

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