Freddy Rincón: Prosecutor's Office's progress in clarifying the accident that ended his life in Cali

In the early morning of April 11, former footballer Freddy Rincón suffered a severe traffic accident in Cali, which caused him to spend three days in the Intensive Care Unit of the Imbanaco Clinic, where he died on Wednesday night.

Since the moment of the accident, several versions of what happened have been known. In fact, it was initially mentioned that Rincón was behind the wheel, but later it was denied, as the former Real Madrid player was in the co-driver's position, which is why he was the passenger who suffered the most.

“My dad wasn't driving, he leaves me very calm in the face of false accusations. Let the driver open up, may God do justice and let the Prosecutor's Office do its job,” said Sebastián Rincón on the way out of Medicina Legal, in Cali, on Thursday morning.

After confirming that Rincón was not the one who was driving, it was requested that the man who was driving the Ford van report to the Public Prosecutor's Office; if he did not, the capture would only be a matter of time.

According to information from the newspaper El Tiempo, the day after the accident, the Mayor's Office of Cali began to send evidence of the accident. Afterwards, the Prosecutor's Office gave the order to handle the case from the Bogotá section.

It was also known that the staff of the Cali Mobility Secretariat was responsible for the initial fieldwork to collect videos, testimonies and documents, including the sketch of the accident and the report of the ambulance company that took Rincón out of the cabin of the van. All of them are now the material of the investigating and prosecuting body.

At the time, Cali's Undersecretary of Mobility, Edwin Cándelo, explained:

The car was subjected to analysis by forensic experts, who also carried out the task of collecting the fingerprints that were in the cockpit, including those on the helm. In addition, the points of impact that the vehicle received were compared with Freddy Rincón's necropsy to confirm where it was sitting.

Thanks to security cameras in the area and some videos found on social networks, it was established that a few minutes after the impact, two people accompanying the former Santa Fe player took a taxi and left the scene.

It is worth remembering that in the van were two women, whose identity is already known, Maria Manuela Patiño, 20, and Diana Lorena Cortés, 43 years old; one of them recorded her testimony in a video.

Vladimir Mosquera, a friend of Freddy Rincón, told the newspaper El País de Cali, that they met on Sunday, April 10, to see some commitments of the BetPlay League together, and ruled out that the Colossus of Buenaventura was in a state of drunkenness. “We were sharing at Harold's house. There were Freddy (Rincon), former mayor of Buenaventura Édison Bioscar Ruiz and a couple of other friends. As we always do, we talked about football, watched some matches of the Colombian tournament, and then we listened to salsa because Freddy was passionate about salsa. I went to the house. Then I woke up to the news of the accident.”

On the other hand, Tomás Humberto Díaz Valencia, who is Freddy Rincón's half-brother and owner of the Ford van, commented in an interview with El Tiempo:

Finally, it is expected that over the next few days those who were in the car with the '19′ of the Colombian national team will testify about the events that occurred before and after the strong impact that the van in which they were transported received.

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