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South American road safety and sobriety enforcement

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2026-11-02 05:27 UTC → 2026-11-03 02:25 UTC · added ~~removed~~

Following a fatal traffic accident in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, where a driver allegedly tested positive for alcohol and killed an 18-year-old passenger, the Paraguayan Ombudsman, Rafael Ávila Macke, called for intensified and permanent breathalyzer controls. He urged police and local municipalities to implement rigorous, unannounced operations to prevent impaired driving deaths. In the San Lorenzo incident, authorities reported that the driver of the impacting vehicle, 37-year-old Jorge Antonio Romero Gómez, tested positive for alcohol with a level of 0.972 milligrams per liter of exhaled air. Romero Gómez was detained by the Public Ministry following the collision. In Argentina, law enforcement agencies conducted extensive sobriety checkpoints across several provinces. In Formosa, police carried out over 2,200 controls, resulting in 143 traffic violations and 34 positive alcohol tests. In Tucumán, a coordinated effort in Banda del Río Salí led to the seizure of 20 vehicles involving drivers who tested positive for alcohol. In Misiones, a provincial government subsecretary was allegedly caught driving an official state vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

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