Overview
- The municipality formalized Decree 0104/2026, elevating penalties to 8,500–25,000 municipal modules—officially estimated at up to about 15 million pesos—for unauthorized use of UTVs, quad bikes, motorcycles and trucks in the dune area.
- The rules authorize preventive retention and seizure of vehicles, prolonged license suspensions and potential criminal complaints for unlawful entry to private property, while shifting full accident-related costs to offenders.
- Six fixed checkpoints now operate at accesses, exits and along the front route with document and breathalyzer controls, and local reports cite vehicle impoundments, including one account of 16 seizures after the decree took effect.
- Judicial proceedings continue with negligent-injury charges against the injured boy’s father and other drivers; the vehicles involved remain held for forensic examination.
- The Buenos Aires provincial transport ministry issued a preventive driving disqualification to a man filmed endangering his family on the dunes, as the hospital reports Bastián Jerez remains in intensive care, grave but clinically stable with partial response to stimuli.