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The crash occurred around 5:30 p.m. on Route 3 and traffic was cut off
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July 08, 2023 at 21:22
A woman and her daughters, ages 4 and 9, died in a traffic accident in Salto. A car and a truck collided head-on at kilometer 473 of Route 3, a few kilometers from the Río Daymán bridge on the border between Salto and Paysandú.
As reported to The Observer the journalist Horacio Pérez, from the local portal Tiempo de Noticias, the crash occurred around 6:30 p.m. As a result, the 44-year-old woman and her daughters died instantly.
The trucker suffered injuries and was taken to the Salto medical center by ASSE ambulance.
The Highway Police report indicated that the spirometry test on the 37-year-old truck driver was negative, and that the companion, of the same age, was unharmed.
After the accident, traffic was cut off in the area, so lines of several kilometers of vehicles formed. Firefighters and Highway Police worked at the scene to determine the causes of the accident.
Caminera reported that at 10:20 p.m. Route 3 was released.
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