So I don't know the situation but as an American living in Argentina for 5 years I can say a few things about how traffic accidents work here.
So, say you are making a legal left turn on a one-way street, onto another one way street, and a motorcycle flys around you ON THE LEFT from behind and doesn't see you turning, and plows into you. (Incidentally, all motorcycle drivers do this here - if you visit, don't drive until you understand the alternate "physics" of driving in South America.) In this case, even though you were in front, you signaled, you were in the leftmost lane, etc, a number of things will happen in the resulting police investigation and inevitable court cases (remember i'm sort of 'americanizing' the situation - the exact law and actors are slightly different but this is essentially what happens):
First, you will get sued by the motorcycle driver in civil court for multiple hundreds of thousands of pesos, probably at least $150k US. Second, you will get sued in criminal court (possibly by the "DA") with a crime - in fact it's possible both of you will, but let's assume in this case you have a job as a software developer like Daniel and the other guy is working for much less. In this case the suing will be mostly from the low-wage earner to (potential) high-wage earner. It is a near-guarantee, that though the high-wage earner did not do anything wrong, they or their insurance will pay a significant amount of money to the low-wage earner to settle the civil case. The fact of the matter is IT DOES NOT MATTER what happened in the actual traffic accident - it DOES NOT MATTER if you were or weren't at fault.
Now the cases will take possibly a year or longer and that means while they're going on, you're essentially an indicted criminal with multiple cases hanging over your head. If you travel or leave the country, etc, you may have a hard time - if you're an Argentine - leaving. I know people who have had to get a judge's permission to travel in this situation.
It's very possible, in fact, likely that the detritus of these court cases is hanging around and it has NOTHING to do with anything that David did, but the bureaucracy of Argentina sort of 'caught up' with him here in an odd way. Thank God they move so slowly most of the time - the number of absurd Kafkaesque situations like this is immense here mitigated mostly by institutional inefficiencies. However in this case I would guess that this is somehow the situation.
So, say you are making a legal left turn on a one-way street, onto another one way street, and a motorcycle flys around you ON THE LEFT from behind and doesn't see you turning, and plows into you. (Incidentally, all motorcycle drivers do this here - if you visit, don't drive until you understand the alternate "physics" of driving in South America.) In this case, even though you were in front, you signaled, you were in the leftmost lane, etc, a number of things will happen in the resulting police investigation and inevitable court cases (remember i'm sort of 'americanizing' the situation - the exact law and actors are slightly different but this is essentially what happens):
First, you will get sued by the motorcycle driver in civil court for multiple hundreds of thousands of pesos, probably at least $150k US. Second, you will get sued in criminal court (possibly by the "DA") with a crime - in fact it's possible both of you will, but let's assume in this case you have a job as a software developer like Daniel and the other guy is working for much less. In this case the suing will be mostly from the low-wage earner to (potential) high-wage earner. It is a near-guarantee, that though the high-wage earner did not do anything wrong, they or their insurance will pay a significant amount of money to the low-wage earner to settle the civil case. The fact of the matter is IT DOES NOT MATTER what happened in the actual traffic accident - it DOES NOT MATTER if you were or weren't at fault.
Now the cases will take possibly a year or longer and that means while they're going on, you're essentially an indicted criminal with multiple cases hanging over your head. If you travel or leave the country, etc, you may have a hard time - if you're an Argentine - leaving. I know people who have had to get a judge's permission to travel in this situation.
It's very possible, in fact, likely that the detritus of these court cases is hanging around and it has NOTHING to do with anything that David did, but the bureaucracy of Argentina sort of 'caught up' with him here in an odd way. Thank God they move so slowly most of the time - the number of absurd Kafkaesque situations like this is immense here mitigated mostly by institutional inefficiencies. However in this case I would guess that this is somehow the situation.