Un Toyota Corolla, conducido por un hombre de 68 años con antecedentes de desvanecimientos, se desplazó a 100 km/h por un boulevard en Córdoba capital, impactando autos, motos y peatones durante 300 metros. El vehículo, equipado con avanzados sistemas de seguridad, no mostró señales de frenado. Expertos sugieren que el conductor pudo haberse descompensado al volante.
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00:00What happened in that boulevard from Córdoba to the capital where suddenly a Toyota Corolla
00:05100 kilometers per hour is taking ahead cars, motorcycles, people for 300 meters.
00:13This is the new video that was known today and there you can see, look, at the speed it comes and how it moves
00:19to that dark car that takes ahead a lot of pilots and continues to travel and continues to travel.
00:26The man had a history of fading away in other opportunities, of having lost knowledge.
00:32However, they had renewed his license. At 68 years old, he could continue driving until he was 72,
00:38at least for the license they had given him. But what could have happened?
00:43I'm going to ask Federico González, who is a licensee in accidentology and vehicular prevention,
00:47who I have on a screen. Federico Graña, I'm talking to you, good morning.
00:51Good morning, how are you?
00:53What could have happened?
00:55Well, without having access to the cause, right?
00:59Having the resources, of course, of the case, it is very likely, there is a lot of evidence,
01:05watching the videos and seeing what has circulated since yesterday, that yes, there is a lot of possibility
01:11that it has been offset. Why? Well, there are some signs, for example, the absence of braking.
01:16The vehicle is stopped by the property owner of the area, trees and other issues that were
01:23brought forward, parked vehicles and others.
01:25The fact that it was an automatic car, could it have been locked in some way?
01:30Or just by fading away, it kept pressing the accelerator?
01:34Well, we are talking about not just any automatic car, it is a very new automatic car, right?
01:39New, very high-end, that has a lot of security systems that prevent that.
01:44Already in itself, thanks to some trials that took place in the United States a few years ago
01:48with this type of vehicle, they have the carpet, the system on the carpet prevents the carpet in general,
01:53as it happened before, from locking the accelerator. So that would be ruled out in principle.
02:00Now, suppose I am driving this vehicle, I get off balance and my foot is pressing the accelerator,
02:08the system will not work, the system that brakes the vehicle will not work.
02:11Of course.
02:12But if the vehicle locks up and I notice that it locks up and I don't know why,
02:16the accelerator locks up and my vehicle starts to accelerate uncontrollably,
02:20if I press the brake, the car stops. That is the security system, there it is activated.
02:25So that's why I told you at the beginning that it was difficult for the person to have commanded the vehicle before the tow truck.
02:32Well, they still have handbrake on those cars. It's a hybrid car, right? Let's make it clear.
02:37Of course, it's a hybrid car. You know that being a hybrid is a fact. Why?
02:41Because the hybrid engine has a common motor and an electric motor.
02:45The electric motor is charged when the vehicle brakes.
02:48So it is impossible for this vehicle not to brake if I press both things together.
02:54If I press the accelerator and I press the brake, the vehicle brakes.
02:57Why? Because there is an incompatibility. The engine cannot be charged.
03:01Because it charges with the brake and discharges with the accelerator, right?
03:06So this fact is very important to the effects of the accident.
03:12Why? Because there was or there was not at first, of course, the potential,
03:16there was not initially a braking action in the person.
03:19And how is it possible that they have given him records and he had a history?
03:23Today it transcended that in his clinical history he had a history of other faintings.
03:27It can be diabetic coma, convulsions, it can be different things. How is it explained?
03:31Well, there is a clear responsibility of the municipality.
03:37To us, to any Argentine citizen, the municipalities give us the license.
03:41They license us to go out on the street with a vehicle of a thousand kilos or more, right?
03:45So they have a responsibility to the state for that.
03:47There are barriers that should be met.
03:49The checkups. From 65 the law provides for this and is much more incisive
03:55in the medical and psychological checkup of people.
03:57Because at 65 you get old, we all get old and we lose sight,
04:02we lose hearing, we lose sight and it is necessary for more exhaustive checkups.
04:08That is why the renewal is shortened, it is not every five years,
04:12but it should be every month.
04:13Well, there is a flaw, a flaw in the system that has not been able to achieve,
04:19detect that this person, well, had impediments or could have impediments.
04:22And this is interesting.
04:24How does an antecedent of this type arise when renewing a driving record?
04:29Because it is true that from time to time this part puts more emphasis
04:32on the knowledge of the traffic rules, which before did not give it much ball.
04:38And then the visual issue.
04:39On the visual issue, yes, one goes through that renewal process
04:43for something exhaustive in that sense.
04:45Now the other, which is a precedent of a fad,
04:48which appears in my clinical history, but at the moment it is not going to give me a fad.
04:52How does it arise?
04:54There is no data crossing in that sense.
04:56That is, I go, if I had medical problems with my personal doctor,
05:00I go to renew my license at 50 years old, 68 years old and I do not have to present that.
05:06If I want, I do not present it, it is a sworn statement.
05:09And the person who is taking that exam,
05:12let's suppose they are doing it the right way,
05:15is not going to ask me or does not have the necessary tools
05:20to ask me about my personal history.
05:22Unfortunately, the exam should be extremely exhaustive.
05:26I reiterate, the municipal, provincial and national states give us licenses to go out on the street.
05:33It is the state that has this responsibility.
05:35It is based on your word, in practice, because for this type of thing it is based on the word of each one.
05:40And well, of course, obviously.
05:43There have been cases, I remember some accidents,
05:47for example, a taxi driver who gave him a diabetic coma and ran over and killed a person on Santa Fe Avenue.
05:52A little while ago, there in the forest area, a person also fainted,
05:57he put his car back and got into a shop.
05:59In Laudaondo, years ago, a very remembered case,
06:01that a driver of a remit began to give epilepsy attacks and the girls even threw themselves out of the car.
06:07So it happens more often than you think.
06:09Of course.
06:10Yes, it happens, compared to the number of fatal sins that we have with deaths in Argentina,
06:16the percentage is minimal, but it happens.
06:18Even there, as Rolando mentioned, there are professional drivers, right?
06:22That is, there, precisely, the license should be much more.
06:26All the life of the professional driver should be much more exhaustive.
06:30Not so much in the physical, that is, sight and hearing, but in the psychological,
06:34which is where it can be detected, to prevent facts.
06:38We have in Argentina, it must be said, a kind of freedom with the license, right?
06:42It is almost like it is an obligation that we are given the license to drive.
06:44Thing that in other countries, with many better houses of civil service, it is not like that.
06:48It is the opposite.
06:50Getting the license is a symptom of status, right?
06:54It is a kind of burden of responsibility that for the third parties, for our families,
06:58well, it's all an achievement.
07:00Here, unfortunately...