The discovery of a lifeless man this morning shocked traffic on the road linking La Plata to Punta Lara. The body was found next to a gray Volkswagen Golf on the shoulder of Diagonal 74, in the section leading towards the coastal city.
The victim was identified as a 69-year-old man, residing in the town of Ranchos in Buenos Aires. Next to the body were recovered a .38-caliber firearm, a farewell letter, cash in pesos and dollars, and a box of bullets of the same caliber.
The case was under the jurisdiction of the Functional Education Unit No. 11 of La Plata, under the supervision of Public Prosecutor Alvaro Garganta, who after the first investigations worked under the hypothesis of suicide. Scientific police officers took samples and confiscated the car to encourage investigations. An autopsy is scheduled to be performed within the next few hours to determine the causes of death and the approximate time of death.

Earlier, an accident occurred on the Camino Rivadavia road in the Al Deek area, when a Renault Kangoo truck collided head-on with a Renault 9 car. According to the official part of Ensenada Patrol CommandThe vehicles involved were A Renault Kangoo white (Domain LMK-471), driven by a 50-year-old man, who was traveling with two other people, aged 45 and 53; And a Renault 9 blue (Domain ARU-263), managed by another man, who was accompanied by A A woman lost her life and her identity has not yet been identified.
Upon their arrival at the scene, police officers discovered that the Kangoo was on the asphalt strip, while the Renault 9 had fallen into a ditch after the collision. Inside the car, the couple was unconscious.