With boats and tactical divers, the Prefecture found this Friday at noon the two people who disappeared on Thursday night, when the boat in which they were traveling was collided in the Luján River by a boat at full speedwhose driver was drunk.
The victims were identified as Sergio Daniel Duarte, 30, and Martín Daniel Castro, 33. Along with two other people, admitted to a hospital in the area, They were returning from work on Nicolini Island.
The crash occurred at 7:40 p.m. on Thursday, in the San Fernando Channel, in front of a Prefecture post. As he told Clarion the prosecutor José Ignacio Amallo, the two men who were in the luxurious boat of almost five meters in length were under the influence of alcohol. “According to the pipette test, they had consumed alcohol. Now, I ordered blood drawn to verify how much they had really consumed,” he said.
Until now it transpired that the surnames of the crew members of the boat that caused the tragedy with González and Bermúdez. It was also learned that they have no criminal record and that they are delayed while waiting for the prosecutor to take an investigative statement. Once this procedure is completed, the imputation will be defined.
The Prefecture led the search operation for the disappeared after a boat crash on Thursday night in the Luján River. Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami
In addition, both the papers of the boat and the validity of the registration of the person sailing, in principle, according to Amallo, “would be in order.” not yet determined “if they came back from a party or if they had drunk on the boat”, but in the cause it will matter what the toxicological analysis says. No bottles were found inside the ship.
The victims’ boat was going in the same direction as the boat and I didn’t have any lights on as told by Télam judicial sources. In addition, it was confirmed that, despite being a small boat, it was powered by an outboard motor.
As it was possible to reconstruct during the morning of Friday, the small boat did not break in the middle as initially reported. Instead, it was learned that its four occupants they saw the boat coming, which was traveling in the same direction as them at full speed, and managed to jump into the water to avoid the impact.
This Friday, Claudia Veronica Castro (35 years old), who worked as a maid in a house in the area, and Sixto Quiroga (29), who was a stakeholder on the same property, were recovering from cuts and multiple injuries at the Petrona V. de Cordero Provincial Hospital, where they remained. stable and life-threatening. According to her reports, the two of them were the only ones wearing life jackets.
The boat that ran over a boat on the Luján River: two are missing.
The other two victims are the couple and a brother of Claudia: Sergio Daniel Duarte30 years old, and Martin Daniel Castrofrom 33. They were all returning from work on Nicolini Island.
As part of the search operation, four boats from the Prefecture raked the crash zone since Thursday night. and this friday tactical divers joined the operation.
According to the witnesses’ account, the clash occurred in front of the Prefecture post, so the troops went after hearing the impact. The boat completely sank almost immediately.
He was driving his boat drunk and crashed into a boat on the Luján River: they are looking for two missing persons.
Relatives of the occupants of the damaged boat remained in front of the crash site and assured that the small boat complied with the necessary conditions to navigateincluding the corresponding lighting.
A background of 2018
In March 2018, a boat crash in the Tigre Delta claimed the life of Tamara Suetta (25), who died on the spot. His parents, meanwhile, suffered serious injuries.
Manuel María Beccar Varela (50), a lawyer who was driving drunk one of the boats that collided, achieved the out-of-court settlement.
Tamara Suetta (25) died in a boat crash in the Tigre Delta in 2018.
That crash occurred minutes before 8 p.m. on March 23, 2018, when Tamara was traveling with her parents, Ángel Armando Suetta (66) and María Elena Fantini (64), to a relative’s house, located on an island in the Delta. . In a curve of the Carapachay River they crossed paths with the boat “Bicuña”driven by Beccar Varela, in which seven passengers were traveling.
The two boats collided head-on. Tamara received a blow to the head and died on the spot. Ángel suffered fractures to the second cervical vertebra and septum, blows to the spine, legs and several cuts. María Elena suffered a blow to the head that caused her to lose consciousness and a cut. In addition, the woman suffered fractures to her right clavicle and shoulder, nine broken ribs and a deviated spine. Her injuries left behind a 50% physical disability.
The skills determined that Beccar Varela was driving with 0.83 grams of alcohol per liter of blood and that it was going against the grain. It was also found that the “Bicuña” was in a situation of “sailing ban” at the time of the crash, according to a report from the Naval Prefecture.
As if that were not enough, the investigators established that the boat driven by Beccar Varela was going to “a speed considered excessive“, since the tests on the engine indicated that it turned at between 3,400 and 3,500 revolutions per minute.