Luis F. Durán Madrid
Madrid
Updated Tuesday, March 19, 2024-00:10
Events The driver of a truck who fled after the fatal collision of an 83-year-old man in Aluche was arrested
The 43-year-old Galician truck driver arrested yesterday in Madrid by the Municipal Police for fleeing after a fatal accident in the Madrid neighborhood of Aluche pleaded innocent.
According to his statement, he was not aware that he had run over anyone at a crosswalk and, therefore, claimed that he never ran away.
"I didn't notice anything," he reiterated.
Investigators from the Municipal Police Report and Accident Unit
are trying to find out if he is telling the truth and yesterday they moved the truck to the scene of the accident
to check if his argument was credible in order to recreate the maneuver that cost the man his life. .
The fatal accident occurred around 10:15 a.m. at number 83 Maqueda Street.
The Scania truck, white in color,
loaded with meat from Galicia,
was heading to the Copasa shopping gallery in Aluche, between Quero and Maqueda streets.
The refrigerated vehicle, with a tonnage of 12,000 kilos without load, opened to make a two-way turn onto Maqueda Street.
At that moment, according to witnesses, he hit an 83-year-old pedestrian who was crossing the zebra crossing with the right side of the truck.
According to the police reconstruction, the octogenarian
fell under the truck that, as it continued on its course, passed over the man with its rear wheels.
At that moment, the old man's body was displaced about 10 meters from the zebra crossing.
Several pedestrians began to scream and put their hands on their heads while the truck continued moving at a very low speed.
«We immediately called 112 and the Police.
The man was left lying on the ground, inert, he did not move
," they later reported.
The refrigerated truck that ran over the old man next to the Copasa marketJAVIER BARBANCHO
The Samur doctors were unable to revive the man who died instantly.
The witnesses explained that "surely the truck did not realize what happened."
"Many large trucks pass through this area because of the market and they always open to turn with the danger that there is for people who cross at that moment through the vehicle's blind spot," said a neighbor.
The Samur psychologists also appeared at the scene of the accident to assist the witnesses.
The victim was undocumented although he was later identified as a resident of the area born in 1941.
The agents questioned several witnesses who suggested that the truck could be one of the vehicles that go to the Copasa market every day.
With the characteristics provided by those present, the Police located the vehicle at the time it was unloading the products at one of the docks of the shopping center.
The truck still had traces of blood on one of the side areas.
The driver was arrested for reckless homicide and a crime of leaving the scene of the accident.
He will be brought to justice.
The agents provided the magistrate with the accident report explaining the moment of the accident and the driver's first statements that
fit with his version that he was not aware of the accident.
They also added the testimony of several witnesses and were waiting to review the security cameras of a nearby store to verify if they had recorded the mishap.
The arrested man tested negative in the breathalyzer test and in the drug test.
He was alone in the truck.
His colleagues at the Copasa market could not believe what had happened.
They claim that he arrived at the market and behaved as if nothing had happened.
"
He is a prudent and very sensible man who had never had an accident
," said the driver of another truck that also regularly supplies the Copasa market.