Accidente en la ruta 2: hay seis heridos

Argentine drivers receive a fair bit of criticism from visitors and expats, for everything from their inability to use headlights (even at 2 a.m.) to their refusal to use lanes to the sheer lack of stopsigns on streetcorners. I've always been a defender of the local car-aiming capabilities however. Lanes? shouldn't they be organic? And stop signs? I prefer following one's recognizance: if there's nobody coming, go. (The headlight thing I just don't understand, however.) But a recent spate of accidents--horrifying, fatal accidents--especially among bus drivers and, weirdly, the Argentina-Uruguay ferry, have made me rethink this.

Here, a collection of images from crashes in the last two weeks or so, from La Nación (none from Clarín because, well, their search engine wasn't working).

Cuatro heridos al chocar dos colectivos en el microcentro porteño

En un choque, 4 muertos y 48 heridos

Devoto: 17 heridos tras un choque

Doce muertos en accidentes de tránsito en el país

Investigan el accidente del barco