US ambassador to Argentina unhurt in car accident in Patagonia

dpa German Press Agency Published: Monday February 19, 2007

Buenos Aires- The US ambassador to Argentina, Earl Anthony
Wayne, was involved in a car accident during a weekend trip in
Patagonia, but Argentine media quoted the embassy Monday as saying no
one in his party was hurt.
Wayne's accident happened Saturday, when the ambassador was
returning to the town of El Calafate, in the southern Argentine
province of Santa Cruz. Wayne and his wife had just visited the
Glacier Perito Moreno.

The daily Clarin said in its online edition that the rented
vehicle Wayne was driving was involved in a frontal collision with
another family's car. One of the occupants of the other car suffered
serious injuries and had to be taken to a nearby hospital.

The website Infobae.com said the accident after one of the tyres
in the other vehicle burst causing the driver to lose control and
cross into the opposite lane. The US ambassador could not avoid the
crash.

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