A car accident in the accesses to Montevideo by Route 1 culminated in the death of an 18-year-oldwhom they found floating in the Arroyo Miguelete this Thursday, the Highway Police reported in a statement.
The accident occurred at 11:00 p.m. on Wednesday on the Route 1 bridge that passes through the aMiguelete streambetween the neighborhoods of Capurro and La Teja. A car misled while leaving Montevideo and crashed into one of the bridge barriers.
Initially, the authorities who arrived in the area found two people injured in the carwhich should have been rescued by Firefighters.
The driver is 18 years old and spirometry could not be performed because he had to be transferred to a health center with multiple injuries. The companion, of the same age, suffered a trauma “with loss of consciousness” and was referred to the Police Hospital, reported Caminera.
Highway Police
Fatal traffic accident on the bridge of Arroyo Miguelete on Route 1
However, hours later the family of a third 18-year-old youth appearedwhich ensured that I was in that car too and it was missing. The companion confirmed to the authorities that there was a third occupant in the back seat.
According to the police, two hypotheses were worked on: the first was that the young man He was rescued and taken to a hospital before the cops arrived. The second was that the young he could have been “thrown from the vehicle” into the creek.
Attempts were made to locate the man in different health centers without success, and the first rakes on the bank of the stream they did not give results eitherfor which the collaboration of Prefecture.
At 7:15 a.m. this Thursday, more than eight hours after the traffic accident, the body of the young man appeared floating in the Migueletedetailed from Caminera.
From 8 a.m. to after 9 a.m. the section of Route 1 where the accident occurred will remain closed to carry out a “revealment of the scene”, reported the force.
