Terrible: Man strucks a woman and killed her baby to escape from an accident

Posadas, 18 October 2010

A terrifying episode occurred in Posadas, Misiones, when a man who had just crash with his car, decided to flee running over a woman with her baby. The little one died on the spot.

The man, driving a Ford Falcon crashed a Fiat Uno, which was being driven by Leonardo Castillo, 34, with his wife and son, only 40 days old. According to Castillo, his wife was breastfeeding at the time of the crash.

As always happens in an accident of this nature, drivers got out of their vehicles to exchange insurance information.

The drama began when the owner of the Falcon, who had caused the accident, refused to give Castillo the papers, suddenly jumped into his car and drove off, at the moment the was with her baby in front of his car. The man didn’t care about it and sped up hitting them both, and dragged them for about 30 meters, before the terrified eyes of witnesses.

Traffic Division and the Ministry of Health ambulance arrived soon. The little boy had died instantly. His mother was on the floor, bathed in blood, seriously injured.

The author of the accident was located when he tried to hide his vehicle in a relative’s house.

After being arrested, he refused to be submitted to alcohol tests and said “he did not remember anything.” He is currently in prison.