# Argentine police vehicle collisions involving minors

> Developing situation record from CLSTR: https://clstr.news/situations/argentine-police-vehicle-collisions-involving-minors
> Updated: 2026-10-18T20:00:34.000Z. Sources: 8. Developments: 2.

In Lomas de Zamora, police pursuits involving patrol vehicles have resulted in the deaths of children. 

In one incident in the Ingeniero Budge area, a two-year-old boy, Julián Emiliano Benítez, died after a high-speed police chase involving a motorcycle. Witnesses stated the patrol car was traveling at high speeds without sirens when it struck a vehicle carrying the child. The driver of the patrol car was detained and charged with aggravated involuntary manslaughter and breach of official duties.

In a separate case involving a collision in Fiorito, a correctional court sentenced a police officer to three years and eight months of house arrest for the aggravated manslaughter of a nine-year-old boy. A second officer received a two-year suspended sentence and a driving ban for aggravated negligent injuries.

## Timeline

### 2026-10-18: Argentine police officers sentenced in fatal Fiorito vehicle collision

A police officer in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina, has been sentenced to over three years of house arrest for the aggravated manslaughter of a nine-year-old boy in a 2023 patrol car collision.

3 sources. https://clstr.news/cluster/argentine-police-officers-sentenced-in-fatal-fiorito-vehicle-collision

### 2026-10-13: Lomas de Zamora police chase results in death of two-year-old boy

A two-year-old boy died in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina, after a police patrol car, pursuing motorcycle suspects, collided with the vehicle he was traveling in with his father.

6 sources. https://clstr.news/cluster/lomas-de-zamora-toddler-dies-in-police-chase-collision

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