After becoming champion with Estudiantes, soccer player Tiago Palacios crashed in Retiro, tested positive for alcohol and will remain detained

Tiago Palacios, Estudiantes de La Plata footballer, crashed at a service station

Tiago Palacios, a footballer who this Sunday won the League Cup with Estudiantes de La Plata, was involved in a strong crash this morning in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Retiro, when he hit the pump of a service station. A few hours after the accident, it was found that the forward was driving drunk, with more than three times the amount of alcohol in his blood than what is allowed for a private driver in CABA. In his attempt to avoid the impact, a player was injured and had to be hospitalized.

In response to Infobae’s query, official sources indicated that Palacios was detained at the Highway Police Station, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Parque Avellaneda, initially accused of “minor culpable injuries and driving under the influence of alcohol.” He will be investigated this Tuesday morning via Zoom by prosecutor Horacio Peix of the East Flagrancy Unit.

Police sources stated that the road accident occurred at a Shell service station, located on Paseo del Bajo and the Illia highway. There, for reasons that are still unknown, Palacios crashed his white Jeep Compass Limited truck into pump No. 6.

Despite the collision, Palacios exited the vehicle on his own, unharmed, while a service station employee suffered trauma to both legs and was transported in a SAME ambulance to the Fernández hospital.

Tiago Palacios is 23 years old and arrived at Estudiantes de La Plata in February of this year

Alberto Crescenti, head of SAME, spoke with the TyC Sports channel and assured that Palacios was traveling with a companion, and both refused to be transferred to a health center. “I cannot force them to be transferred,” explained the emergency doctor.

According to preliminary information, Palacios initially hit the sign that displays fuel prices, then against a cone and, finally, against one of the pumps. Witnesses told police that the employee was injured while she was doing her best to avoid the impending collision.

Around 11 o’clock and by order of the East Flagrancy Unit, Palacios was subjected to a breathalyzer test and a narco test. The first of the tests gave a positive result, since the attacker from the La Plata team was driving with 1.84 grams of alcohol per liter of blood, when the maximum allowed for a private driver in CABA is 0.50 gr/l.

Tiago Palacios and his companion refused to be transferred by SAME to a health center

According to what this media learned, Palacios was transferred to the section corresponding to the Highway Division of the City Police, located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Parque Avellaneda and next to the Perito Moreno highway.

In addition, prosecutor Peix ordered that investigations be carried out on the vehicle at the scene of the incident. While City Firefighters personnel worked at the service station to prevent a possible fire in Palacios’ vehicle.

City Firefighters worked at the scene to prevent a fire

According to the newspaper El Día de La Plata, the Estudiantes team landed around midnight on Sunday on a private plane that took them from Santiago del Estero to the city of Buenos Aires, and around 2 o’clock this Monday they arrived at the site. by City Bell.

Palacios, 23, joined “Pincha” in February of this year, from Montevideo City Torque, and quickly earned a place in coach Eduardo Domínguez’s starting team. In fact, the winger started in the three games that the La Plata team played in the final phase of the League Cup.