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Nighttime Road Crashes Leave Two Dead and Three Injured in Uruguay

From El País · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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News Official statement Under investigation
  • A head-on crash between a car and a truck on Route 3 in Paysandú killed the 35-year-old car driver, police said.
  • A second head-on collision on Route 3 in Flores left one person dead and three injured, with the road completely blocked.
  • Police detained a truck with similar characteristics to one allegedly involved in the Paysandú crash and continued investigating.

Two fatal crashes on Route 3 in Uruguay left two people dead and three injured during the night and early morning.

The first crash occurred at kilometer 362 in Paysandú. A car collided head-on with a truck pulling a trailer, and both vehicles came to rest on the natural shoulder beside the road. The 35-year-old car driver suffered serious injuries and died after being taken to a hospital in Paysandú.

The truck driver, a 62-year-old man, recorded zero on a breath test. He told police he had been traveling north when another truck with a semitrailer tried to overtake him. According to his account, the car traveling in the opposite direction crossed into the other lane to avoid a collision and struck his truck head-on.

The car traveling in the opposite direction, to avoid colliding, crossed into the other lane and struck his vehicle head-on.

· Truck driverThe driver gave police his account of the Paysandú crash.

The other truck had left the area before police arrived. Officers later stopped a truck with similar characteristics at the Queguay toll plaza because it could be connected to the crash.

A second collision occurred overnight at kilometer 178 on Route 3 in the department of Flores. Police said it appeared to involve a head-on crash between two vehicles. One person died and three others were injured. The vehicles were reportedly registered in Argentina and Paraguay, and the route was completely blocked.

It appeared to be a head-on collision between two vehicles.

· Uruguay Highway PolicePolice described the initial assessment of the Flores crash.
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Originally published by El País in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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