04/01/2013 | Argentina

Car output falls 7.8% in 2012

The car output fell 7.8 percent in 2012 compared to the record reached in the previous year, and has totalled 764,495 units, according to the Association of Automotive Factories (ADEFA).

30/01/2013 | Argentina

Pinamar: Police after hit-and-run driver, one hospitalised

It surfaced this morning that a man was hit on Sunday by a luxurious truck that ran away as he was exercising on a beach in Pinamar. According to first reports police is still trying to identify the driver but local journalistic investigations aim to the son of a renowned businessman.

05/03/2013 | Argentina

Car production drops in February, sale of brand new vehicles increase

The car production dropped 2.3 percent in February compared to the volume registered during the same month in 2012, while the sales of brand new vehicles increased 6 percent year-on-year.

18/08/2012 | Argentina

Car smashes through bakery's glass front in Villa Crespo

A car drove through the glass front of a bakery in the Buenos Aires City neighbourhood of Villa Crespo on Saturday. There were no reported injuries in the accident.

23/08/2012 | Argentina

Industrial output drops 1.8% in July, Indec

The industrial output fell 1.8 percent in July against the volume registered during the same month last year, and has accumulated a 1.2 percent drop in 2012 so far, according to the Indec national statistics bureau.

01/09/2012 | Argentina

Son of Tucuman Government minister dies in car crash

The 19 year-old son of Tucuman’s Government Minister Edmundo Jiménez died early this morning in a car crash in the locality of Yerba Buena.

09/06/2012 | Argentina

Three dead in Catamarca car accident

Three young people died and two were critically injured as the car they were riding turned over in Catamarca province.

17/06/2012 | Argentina

Two killed in car accident in Avellaneda

Two men were killed in a car accident in the Greater Buenos Aires district of Avellaneda, police officials said.

03/08/2012 | Argentina

Car output plummets in July to 6.7%

Car output dropped 6.7 percent and reached to 65.900 units in July compared to the volume registered during the same month last year, according to the Association of Automotive Factories (ADEFA).

14/04/2012 | Argentina

Metropolitan police officer shot dead in Caballito

A Metropolitan Police officer was killed this morning after being shot by delinquents who were trying to steal his car. The police official was on his day off, and was with his girlfriend when the attack took place today in Caballito neighbourhood, police sources informed.

28/04/2012 | Argentina

One dead after train hits car in BA Province

A man died after being hit by a train in Ciudadela, Buenos Aires Province, whilst driving his car. Witnesses say the vehicle crossed train tracks on a lowered barrier.

08/06/2012 | Argentina

UIA: Industrial output drops 3% in April

The industrial output dropped 3 percent in April year-on-year, while it grew 1 percent during the first quarter of 2012, according to the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA).

03/11/2011 | Argentina

Car output soars 11.2% in October, ADEFA

Car output soared 11.2 percent and reached to 73,237 units in October compared to the volume registered during the same month last year, although it dropped 8.4 percent against September 2011, according to the Association of Automotive Factories (ADEFA).

08/12/2011 | Argentina

City gov't to consider veto on car parkers law

Buenos Aires City Cabinet Chief Horacio Rodríguez Larreta came on stage to announce that Macri’s administration is considering tu put a veto on a law that regulates the activity of informal car parkers that was passed last night by City Legislature.

02/02/2012 | Argentina

A 15-year-old joyrider crashes mother’s car, kills two

A 15-year-old boy who took his mother’s car without permission unleashed a true nightmare in Southern Greater Buenos Aires town of Lomas de Zamora after hitting a bus, running over a 19-year-old pedestrian, and ending smashing the vehicle against a parked truck. A passenger friend of the teen driver also died due to the violent crash. Prosecutor Luzuriaga requested the minor remains under house arrest.

06/08/2011 | Argentina

Man found trapped in car boot along motorway

A young man was rescued this morning, after being kidnapped and locked inside his car. Officers found the victim inside his car, an abandoned vehicle along the Buenos Aires-La Plata motorway, police sources informed. Before police made the discovery, a multiple car crash took place along the same route.

03/09/2011 | Argentina

Multiple traffic accident in Luján: three fatalities

Three teenagers were killed this morning and another eighteen people were injured following a multiple traffic accident between a school bus, a truck and six cars, along the final part of the Autopista de Oeste highway at the junction with Buenos Aires province area of Luján.

05/09/2011 | Argentina

Car output soars 17.9% in August, ADEFA

Car output soared 17.9 percent and reached to 84,655 units in August compared to the volume registered during the same month last year, according to the Association of Automotive Factories (ADEFA).

23/04/2011 | Argentina

One dead, two injured in Ramos Mejía bus crash

The accident occurred at around 6AM this morning along Rivadavia Avenue at 13000, when two buses crashed into a car. A young man was killed and another two were injured, who were then sent to a local hospital to be treated. Police are investigating the cause of the crash.

07/05/2011 | Argentina

Multiple car accidents leave three dead, many injured

Two fatal car accidents occurred in Buenos Aires province this morning, claiming the lives of three people, and injuring four. One person died this morning, and four people injured after two vehicles crashed into one another in San Justo, in Buenos Aires province.

03/08/2011 | Argentina

Car output soars 27.2% in first seven months

The car output increased 27.2 percent in the first seven months of the year and totalled 462,926 units, according to the Association of Automotive Factories (ADEFA).

27/12/2010 | Argentina

Thieves kill musician in front of his sons

A music teacher was murdered last night in Southern Greater Buenos Aires district of Sarandí by two thieves who robbed and escaped with the victim's car, where the musician's sons were held captive.

03/03/2011 | Argentina

Car output climbs 4.8%

Car output soared 4.8 percent and reached to 42,051 units in February compared to the volume registered during the same month last year, according to the Association of Automotive Factories (ADEFA).

05/04/2011 | Argentina

Car output soars 33.8% in March

Car output soared 33.8 percent in March compared to the volume registered during the same month last year, according to the Association of Automotive Factories (ADEFA).

30/08/2012 | World

Train hits lorry in Floresta, one wounded

A Sarmiento line train collided with small lorry as it was crossing the tracks in the City nighbourhood of Floresta. Emergency sources indicated that the lorry’s twenty-eight-year-old driver sustained several injuries.

21/03/2011 | World

Royal bride to arrive in car attacked by students

Prince William's bride-to-be Kate Middleton will arrive at her wedding next month in the limousine attacked by students during riots in London three months ago, royal officials said

05/05/2011 | World

Suicide car bomber kills at least 17 in Iraq

A car bomber killed at least 17 people and wounded 65 at a police building in the mainly Shi'ite city of Hilla, an official said, as Iraq braced for revenge attacks after US commandos killed Osama bin Laden.

18/03/2012 | World

Car bomb hits Aleppo; police crush Damascus march

A car bomb hit Syria's second city Aleppo, a day after blasts killed 27 in Damascus, and security forces arrested and beat activists at a rare anti-government protest in the capital.

27/07/2012 | Latin America

Cuba blames Spanish driver in crash that killed dissidents

A Spanish politician was to blame for a car crash that killed two Cuban dissidents, including Oswaldo Paya, Cuba said in a report on an accident that has raised suspicions among opposition activists and some foreign governments.

30/07/2012 | Latin America

Survivors of crash that killed Cuba's Paya say it was accident

Two European politicians who survived a car crash that killed prominent Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya said that no other vehicle was involved and denied suggestions they had been deliberately forced off the road.

03/08/2012 | Latin America

Driver in death of Cuban dissident had bad driving record

The Spanish politician who was driving a car that crashed in Cuba last month, killing the island's top dissident, was in proceedings to have his license revoked, according to Spain's national traffic authority.

05/01/2013 | Sports

Dakar 2013 kicks off with quads, bikes

The 34 edition of the Rally Dakar kicked off with the first bikes and quads from the beaches in Lima, Peru, in a competition that will also reach Argentina and end at Chile.

28/01/2013 | Sports

Lotus refuse to be modest with new F1 car

Kimi Raikkonen's Lotus team won the race to be first to show off their 2013 Formula One car today with a challenger that put performance over beauty and turned up its nose at cosmetic surgery.

10/02/2013 | Entertainment

Chris Brown crashes car on eve of Grammy Awards

Embattled R&B singer Chris Brown crashed his car into a wall in upscale Beverly Hills on Saturday, and later told police officers he was trying to elude aggressive paparazzi, police said.

05/01/2011 | Entertainment

Guitarrist 'Tavo' Kupinski dies in tragic traffic accident

One of the most influential Argentine rockers, Gustavo Kupinski died in a tragic car accident whilst driving along motorway 63 late yesterday afternoon. The accident took place at kilometre 12, between routes 2 and 11, in the Province of Buenos Aires.

12/06/2012 | Entertainment

Former Memphis La Blusera singer dies in car crash

26/06/2012 | Entertainment

Rapper 50 Cent injured in car accident

The rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has been released from a hospital after suffering minor injuries when his SUV was involved in a traffic accident early Tuesday morning in New York, according to Jackson's publicist.