Viral campaign in Corrientes to find a driver who wets pedestrians with his truck

"Attentive, attentive to fat," says a man while driving. Increase the speed of your truck, cross a large puddle and leave a pedestrian dipped from the city of Corrientes. He laughs and continues walking at full speed. The supposed joke, which is repeated again and again, was recorded in a video.

The images have been uploaded to the networks, but the author never thought that this material would become viral among the people of Corrientes. The neighbors, scandalized by the conduct of this driver, began a virtual campaign allowing the authorities to act and find the author of these jokes in bad taste.

Yesterday, justice has resumed these complaints. An attorney from the Corrientes Criminal Court opened the search for the driver, filmed by thirsty pedestrians in the provincial capital. It's Pablo Daniel Sosa, who has launched a survey to identify the man who annoys pbadersby.

The prosecutor's representative also sent a request for cooperation to the press as part of the measures ordered to trace the driver.

Judicial sources indicated that there were at least three videos in which one could see a vehicle speeding through the avenues of the urban helmet of Corrientes, flooded by heavy rain that accumulated around 74 millimeters Tuesday.

In the videos that transcend through WhatsApp, social networks and media of Corrientes, a man whose face is not seen, He amused himself with the misfortune of pedestrians, motorcyclists and motorists who ended up getting wet from the splashes that he had caused when he had driven his vehicle into the flooded bends.

In addition, prosecutor Sosa called on the community to "Those who can provide evidence and / or data about the possible author, should contact" the prosecutor to "help clarify this unfortunate event".

"There are also obvious traffic offenses. I have the intention to send copies to the court of offenses, once it has been identified, so that it can apply the corresponding penalties. It could even be the hijacking of the vehicle, "he said.

Sosa also explained to Epoca newspaper that the office action is based on the penal code, due to a "Imprudent behavior, for example in the case of a deliberate derailment of a train, and consequences of the risk to the physical integrity of persons because of an imprudent action. People could have fallen, be injured or even be victims of a much more serious accident. "

In Corrientes, the crimes that the law punishes with penalties not exceeding three years imprisonment – as in the present case for alleged harms -, fine or five years imprisonment and prosecutors have a duty to promote these punishable facts.