{"id":515029,"date":"2026-07-12T17:52:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/six-dead-and-seven-injured-after-a-mass-atropello-at-a-fair-in-vina-del-mar\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:52:49","slug":"six-dead-and-seven-injured-after-a-mass-atropello-at-a-fair-in-vina-del-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/six-dead-and-seven-injured-after-a-mass-atropello-at-a-fair-in-vina-del-mar\/","title":{"rendered":"Six dead and seven injured after a mass atropello at a fair in Vi\u00f1a del Mar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At least six people died<\/strong> and another seven were injured<\/strong> this Sunday after being struck by a vehicle at a fair in Vi\u00f1a del Mar<\/strong>, Chilean police reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>The driver, for reasons currently under investigation, “reportedly lost control” and struck people on the side of the Caupolic\u00e1n fair<\/strong>, said Carabineros Colonel Jorge Guaita<\/strong>, of the Vi\u00f1a del Mar Prefecture, about 120 km west of Santiago. “There are six people deceased at this moment<\/strong>. And we have seven injured people, none in life-threatening condition, fortunately,” Guaita specified in a message sent to the AFP agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A white vehicle shows damage to its rear after hitting several people in Chile, an event that left at least six dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A speeding vehicle that ended up overturned<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to information gathered by Chilean media, the incident occurred after 8:40 in the morning<\/strong> on Alessandri<\/strong> Avenue, in the G\u00f3mez Carre\u00f1o<\/strong> sector. According to witness accounts collected by the Carabineros, an SUV<\/strong>-type vehicle was speeding, drove onto the sidewalk, and overturned<\/strong> before entering the fairgrounds, where it struck pedestrians and vendors present. According to the presidential delegate of Valpara\u00edso, Manuel Millones<\/strong>, there were between 100 and 120 people<\/strong> at the scene at the time of the accident, and the vehicle’s movement only stopped upon crashing into a public transport bus stop<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>The authorities confirmed that the six deceased<\/strong> are three men and three women, all adults. Among the injured<\/strong> are two infants\u2014eight-month-old twins, according to some media outlets\u2014who have minor injuries<\/strong> and, along with the rest of those affected, were taken to the Gustavo Fricke Hospital<\/strong> in Vi\u00f1a del Mar. All the injured are out of life-threatening danger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We recommend reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The driver, arrested and subjected to examinations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The driver was arrested<\/strong> by Carabineros, in some cases with the prior intervention of the market vendors themselves, who subdued him at the scene before handing him over to the police. He will undergo a breathalyzer test and blood tests<\/strong> to determine if he was driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. According to Colonel Guaita, the first breath test performed on the detainee\u2014an \u201cintoxilyzer\u201d\u2014yielded a negative result<\/strong>, although the authorities did not rule out the possibility that he was under the influence of other substances<\/strong>, pending the blood tests. Delegate Millones also specified that the man had no prior criminal record<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Carabineros personnel are working on the investigation of the mass hit-and-run recorded at the Caupolic\u00e1n fair in Vi\u00f1a del Mar (Archive)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officers from the SIAT<\/strong> (Traffic Accident Investigation Section) are conducting the corresponding expert reports to reconstruct the dynamics of the collision, while the Legal Medical Service<\/strong> will be in charge of removing the bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A high-traffic place<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As noted by the presidential delegate of Valpara\u00edso, the Caupolic\u00e1n fair is a \u201cvery populous and massive\u201d space<\/strong>, with nearly one thousand vendors<\/strong>, although the flow of the public at the time of the accident was still lower than during peak hours. \u201cFrom 10:00 to 12:00 it would have been a major disaster,\u201d warned Millones. Emergency teams from the Fire Department, SAMU, Carabineros, Senapred<\/strong>, and personnel from the Vi\u00f1a del Mar municipality worked in the operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least six people died and another seven were injured this Sunday after being struck by a vehicle at a fair in Vi\u00f1a del Mar, Chilean police reported. The driver, for reasons currently under investigation, “reportedly lost control” and struck people on the side of the Caupolic\u00e1n fair, said Carabineros Colonel Jorge Guaita, of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":515031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29YV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/NTA3VCO6UNEZFIVPR4T6V5ZQ2Y.avif","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/NTA3VCO6UNEZFIVPR4T6V5ZQ2Y.avif"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}