Drunk driver ran over cyclists and tried to run away from the site of the events in Valle del Cauca

This Sunday, September 19, a new traffic accident was reported involving a drunk driver, identified as Erik Alexánder Gómez, and five cyclists who were run over. The incident occurred on the road between Palmira and El Cerrito, Valle del Cauca.

“He allegedly caused a traffic accident on the Sucromiles road, overturning a group of cyclists, leaving five injured”, Valle Police Department Commander Colonel Nelson Dabey Parrado said.

According to reports, the sportsmen were practicing physical activity in the area when they were surprised by the driver who was under the influence of alcohol.

“The state of intoxication is verified by medical opinion, hits the back of the group of cyclists”, specified the colonel.

Meanwhile, El Cerrito firefighters attended the scene to deal with the situation and, with an ambulance, helped transport the affected cyclists, who had multiple lacerations. They were transferred to San Rafael Hospital in El Cerrito to receive appropriate care.

As for the person responsible, the authorities indicated that he was captured and that he will subsequently be prosecuted for the offense of culpable injuries in a road accident. The vehicle was a red Mazda, model 1989, which was immobilized.

Likewise, the 44-year-old man was left at the disposal of the general prosecutor’s office during the investigation into the facts.

According to a witness, in dialogue with Caracol Radio, “The driver was going to fly away, they were intercepted; they came super drunk. We came down to help them; I took the keys to the car from the driver, because like the man, with this desire to fly away. Until the police arrive ”.

In other related news, this weekend the first municipal criminal judge, with functions of monitoring guarantees, issued an insurance measure and sent to prison Enrique Vives Caballero, who is responsible for hitting seven people. with his vehicle, among those who died six, after consuming alcohol in the early morning of Monday, September 13.

The court operator made the decision after suspending the hearing, around 10 o’clock in the evening, to examine the evidence in which the defense of Vives assured that the accident had been caused by the deceased because he would have invaded the way by which Vives was traveling.

However, the fact that the man He drove at high speed and under the influence of alcohol, aggravating this punishable behavior, they gave him the reasons for the court to make the decision to charge the crime of murder with possible intent and to deprive Vives of his. freedom, after the request made by the prosecution and which had the support of the prosecution.

Likewise, during the hearing, the representative of the public prosecution, Gloria Guzmán Duque, assured that the businessman had repeatedly tried to flee justice.

Guzmán Duque cited a nursing report which indicated that the man attempted to flee the Perfect Body Clinic on two occasions in the company of his relatives, his lawyer and his guard. This is why he argued that it is necessary that Vives be under an insurance measure while all inquiries are being carried out in this regard since he could escape his responsibility at any time.

“This measure of assurance must be said that, although it is proportional, it is exceptional, but it is also preventive, what it prevents is that the accused does not escape the action of the justice and we had to undergo many behaviors from September 13 to the date, in this regard, ”assured the representative of the prosecution.

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