Four dead, including a girl, after a shock and fire on the road to San Luis – Police

At least four people died Saturday afternoon in a road accident at kilometer 752 of Highway 7, known as Serranías Puntanas, near the entrance to the Paso Dam of Las Carretas in San Luis.

Channel 3 : "The accident occurred between two medium-sized vehicles, one is a Citroen C3 where five people were transported, and the other is an Eco Sport, "said Izaguirre, chief of police. which caught fire after the impact. "

As a result of the accident, the three people who traveled in the Eco Sport died, the deadly victims were identified as Oscar Curtis, 54, his wife, Mariela del Carmen Morocco , 50, and her daughter, Daniela Guadalupe Curtis, between the ages of 22 and 23. They would come from the province of Santa Fe.

In the Citroen C4, meanwhile, the family of Villa María, composed of a couple, their two children and an 18 year old niece, was mobilized.Unfortunately, one of the minors, 10 years old, did not stand up to injury and died at San Luis hospital According to the medical report, the girl was admitted with a poor general condition, thoracoabdominal trauma and hypovolemic shock.The death was due to a cardiorespiratory arrest that doctors tried to roll back for 35 minutes.

The staff of the Criminalistics and Road Accidentology is trying to establish the cause of the accident.It is badumed that one of the drivers would have fallen asleep and would have caused the frontal crash.

On the state of the wounded

The 10-year-old girl who lost her life in the road accident was registered in San Luis, was identified as Serena Olmos.

The little girl returns with her parents, Franco Olmos (40) and Nadia Juárez (42), and his brother Benjamín, 5, and his cousin Carolina Olmos.

The family is from the city of Villa María de Córdoba and was returning from vacation in Los Penitentes, Mendoza

The father of the little girl was taken care of by the hospital warden in San Luis then released.

The other three family members, two women and a minor, were taken to the Polyclinic "Juan Domingo Perón" at Villa Mercedes and, as explained in the health center, they are out of danger .

One of the patients has an ankle fracture and the other a trauma to the shoulder. The youngest suffered a foot trauma.