Overview
- Road deaths in Santa Fe have risen to 26 so far in 2026 compared with 22 in all of 2025, with motorcycles accounting for more than 80% of victims and a growing fleet that now represents about 38% of vehicles.
- A series of recent crashes in Argentina has deepened concern, including a frontal collision on Route 94 near Teodelina that killed all four occupants of the two vehicles involved and other fatal motorcycle collisions now under pericial and judicial investigation.
- A 26-year-old motorcyclist, Mariana Lourdes Ibáñez, was fatally struck in a hit-and-run; the driver was later detained and an alcohol test registered 1.58 g/l, and prosecutors are pursuing charges in that case.
- In Peru, a driver for Etupsa (Line 73) was shot dead after reported extortion threats and a combi in Callao was fired on, leaving the driver and a two-year-old passenger wounded as police investigate links to extortion networks.
- Authorities and organizations have opened criminal and disciplinary inquiries, the AFA will review a stadium projectile that hit a goalkeeper and specialists are calling for stronger enforcement, education and protection measures to reduce human-error crashes and attacks on transport staff.