Overview
- The Honda City driven by Ernestina Pais was hit on the driver’s side by a Tren de la Costa at the Sáenz Peña and El Cano level crossing, which Friday’s security‑camera records place at about 19:25.
- The UFI de Martínez, led by prosecutor María Paula Hertrig, has seized multiple camera recordings, preserved the scene and ordered forensic peritajes while investigators await toxicology and final expert railway reports.
- A preliminary autopsy found a severe traumatic encephalocranial injury and other internal trauma, and emergency crews on arrival confirmed Pais, the sole occupant, died at the scene.
- Reporting notes the crossing’s barriers and warning signals were recorded as functioning and that the train’s horn sounded, while footage shows the vehicle was struck and dragged meters along the tracks.
- Pais’s recent driving history, including a March incident in which she refused a breath test and had her licence administratively inhabilitated, is part of the factual record the prosecutor will examine as the judicial inquiry continues.