Overview
- Marcelo Lerca Moreno, 63, was hit on the shoulder while fixing a flat near kilometer 177 of National Route 205, about five kilometers before the Ibáñez Frocham roundabout.
- He had pulled over in a red Toyota Etios while driving back to La Plata after teaching in the Buenos Aires Province town of Saladillo.
- Police, road safety agents, and the state road operator Corredores Viales secured the area and carried out on‑site forensic work.
- The case sits with the on‑duty prosecutor, and authorities have not announced any charges or the truck driver’s status.
- UNLP’s academic community mourned a veteran engineering professor with more than 25 years of teaching who was honored by the university last year.