Argentina's Transport Minister Mario Meoni has died from serious injuries after his overturned in a road-traffic accident on Ruta Nacoinal 7.
Meoni, 56, was driving near to San Andrés de Giles, Buenos Aires Province, when the accident took place.
Earlier in the day, he had been in Rosario, where he attended various meetings with President Alberto Fernández and Santa Fe,Province Governor Omar Perotti
The minister was travelling alone in an official car from his porfolio, a Ford Mondeo, and was reportedly on his way to Junín to see his family.
According to initial reports, he lost control of the vehicle at around 9.30pm near Kilometre 112. It is believed he crashed into railings and the car overturned. The cause of the accident is unknown.
A former mayor of Junín from 2003 to 2015, elected under the UCR's banner, Meoni was known as one of the so-called “K Radicals” who were co-opted by the Kirchner presidencies in the 2000s.
Meoni later Sergio Massa’s dissident Renewal Front from 2013, where he remained until following the lower house speaker into the Frente de Todos coalition in mid-2019.
