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Ernestina Pais' Death: Preliminary Autopsy Reveals Severe Head Trauma
🇦🇷 Argentina /Crime & Justice

Ernestina Pais' Death: Preliminary Autopsy Reveals Severe Head Trauma

From La Nación · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

At a glance

News Named sources Outcome reported
  • Actress and TV host Ernestina Pais died from severe head trauma, according to preliminary autopsy results.
  • Her car was struck by a train at a level crossing in San Isidro while she was driving with the barriers down.
  • Security footage shows Pais crossing the tracks diagonally, apparently attempting to evade the lowered barriers.

Argentine actress, TV host, and journalist Ernestina Pais died as a result of severe head trauma, preliminary autopsy findings indicate.

Judicial sources reported that the necropsy, conducted at the Petrona V. Cordero General Hospital in San Fernando, determined that Pais suffered a "severe craniocerebral trauma," consistent with the impact of the train that struck the driver's side of her vehicle. The report has been delivered to prosecutor María Paula Hertrig, who is leading the investigation.

The preliminary autopsy result determined that Pais suffered severe craniocerebral trauma, which coincides with the train's impact, hitting the driver's side of the vehicle.

— Judicial sourcesDescribing the cause of death based on the autopsy findings.

The 54-year-old died on Tuesday at 7:24 p.m. when her black Honda City was hit by a Tren de la Costa train at the Sáenz Peña level crossing in San Isidro. According to the Provincial Police of Buenos Aires, Pais drove through the crossing while the barriers were down.

Security camera footage from the Municipality of San Isidro corroborates this, showing Pais driving her vehicle on Elcano street towards Avenida del Libertador. The video captures her crossing the tracks diagonally, appearing to swerve around the lowered barriers just before the train arrived. "The video shows the vehicle's driver crossing the tracks diagonally, meaning she dodged the two barriers. It was 7:24 p.m.," sources with access to the footage stated.

The video shows the vehicle's driver crossing the tracks diagonally, meaning she dodged the two barriers. It was 7:24 p.m.

— Official sourcesDetailing the sequence of events captured by security camera footage.
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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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