Since dawn, Juan Cardoso has been waiting at the door of the house for news of his mother Liliana Piñero Hospital. The woman remains hospitalized in a highly complex ward after she and her family were run over in Flores by a car that, after crossing the red light, collided with another car and ended up overturning on the sidewalk.
Everything happened in a matter of seconds and left four members of the same family: Liliana, her daughter, her son-in-law and her niece. The worst thing happened to the woman who did it thrown against a wall by the impact He suffered broken collarbones and jaws as well as blood vessel damage. “She’s stabilized, but I don’t know if she’s conscious,” Juan said Clarion.
“Everything happened very quickly. My father had just separated from the group to look for something and that’s why he was rescued. My mother was run over, My nephew managed to crawl out from under the wrecked car.luckily only with a scratch. “My sister and brother-in-law were also injured, but their lives were not in danger,” said the victim’s son. They all went to the Dellepiane bus station to board the bus that would take them on vacation to the coast.
While his mother remains in the intensive care unit, Juan faces another urgent problem: the transfer of Liliana to a hospital that relies on his social work. “I have been calling PAMI since morning and they have not answered me. Here they stabilized her, but the doctors told me that they would not do anything else and that she had to continue her hospitalization in another hospital,” he explained.
The family endures hours of despair, waiting for the woman’s development and for an answer that will allow her to be relocated. On the sidewalk of the hospital, time seems to have stood still between uncertainty and fear.
According to the official report, Liliana is the most complicated and her life is in danger. Ariana and Lautaro Recalde, Liliana’s daughter and son-in-law, were discharged with a diagnosis of polytrauma. While the five-year-old child was diagnosed with “traumatic brain injury,” he was referred by his social work agency. His life is out of danger.
Marcelo Argote was driving the Hyundai Santa Fe and only suffered a broken finger. Meanwhile, the driver of the Toyota Etios, surnamed Simonian, was arrested and taken to Santojanni Hospital. The alcohol test was negative in both cases.
The accident occurred this Monday at around 3:45 a.m. at the intersection of Avenida Mariano Acosta and Zuviría, in Flores. According to witnesses and surveillance camerasthe Toyota Etios coming at high speed crossed the red light, There was an accident in which Hyundai ran over the family on the sidewalk and overturned them.
The 24-year-old driver of the Toyota was taken to Santojanni Hospital and arrested after he was confirmed to have run the red light. The family hit was taken to the Piñero Hospital. This was explained by a relative of the group, Eduardo Benjamín They went to the Dellepiane bus station, as they were about to embark on a trip to the coast. “The little ones managed to cover the youngest child, but they were all trapped under the car,” he said.
This Monday morning, other witnesses confirmed that the driver of the Etios was traveling at high speed from the side of Perito Moreno. And they emphasized that “Zuviría is a street where everyone walks very quickly, since there are those who go down from Dellepiane to the wide part and speed up so that the traffic light does not catch them.”
The street that is parallel to the start of the 25 de Mayo motorwayat the peak of the toll, becomes narrower after crossing Perito Moreno. And a block away is the intersection with Mariano Acosta, a one-way street.
The operation involved municipal firefighters, three SAME ambulances and a triage unit, as well as the municipal police, who, after checking that the Toyota Etios had crossed the red light, ordered the arrest of its driver, a 24-year-old man. The case is being investigated by the West Night Flagrancy Unit, led by Florencia Paglianitti.
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