A man died Friday night after being hit by a truck. at the height of kilometer 181 of route 9reported Highway Police.
The man, a 54-year-old Argentine, had stopped the vehicle on the shoulder due to an apparent mechanical problem, but when he got off he was hit by another truck that was traveling in the same direction. According to police information, the victim was seen by doctors from COMERO de Rocha, who confirmed his death at the scene.
The accident would have occurred around 8:50 p.m. about 26 kilometers before the city of Rocha. According to the police report, the 61-year-old driver of a Toyota Truck, which was driving on the route to the east “managed to see that he was an Argentine truck where there was a lot of smoke and its driver would be out of it on the road”, so he couldn’t avoid hitting it.
The spirometry performed on the driver gave a zero result and both he and his passenger were unharmed.
According to the correspondent of Underlined in Rocha, Willan Diallutto, it would be the owner of a house located in the San Antonio resort who was returning from Maldonado after being informed that there was a fire in the house.
