A new mass car accident has shaken the southwest of Bogota and ended in a case of vigilante justice. On Tuesday night, Mauricio Cendales Parra, 35, in an apparent drunken state, lost control of the blue truck he was driving, hit several motorcyclists and crashed into a food stall. He tried to escape, but hundreds of motorcyclists caught up with him and managed to stop him and beat him to death.
Álvaro Enrique Mora Rodríguez, police colonel and commander of city security in the Colombian capital, explained what happened to the media. “About 200 people traveling on motorcycles chased in the El Tintal sector, in the town of Kennedy, a citizen who was traveling in a blue camper who was attacking and carrying out dangerous maneuvers from the Carrera 68 with the Americas.” Mora added that after the simultaneous attacks on Mora, the driver was transferred to the Clínica de Ovest, a few kilometers away. “Due to these multiple traumas, this person died,” the colonel indicated.
Right now, authorities are examining cameras at stations of the Transmilenio collective transport system, on Avenida de las Américas, as well as those installed on public roads and in residential complexes in the area, to “determine the license plates and identification of the people who participated in the attack,” the colonel said. A police officer riding a motorcycle was reportedly injured by the driver, who had accumulated four citations for traffic violations. The time.
This is the second case of mass car accident in a few days in the city. Last Saturday, November 8, the driver of a taxi crashed into a group of 11 people in the town of San Cristóbal, in the south-east of the city, including four minors. One of them, 15 years old, died this Tuesday due to cardiopulmonary arrest, as confirmed by the district health secretary, Gerson Bermont. The deceased’s younger brother, aged seven, remains hospitalized in Santa Clara Hospital, brain dead, according to a relative, citing medical reports.
The taxi driver, identified as José Eduardo Chalá Franco, 56, had accumulated more than 10 summonses for traffic violations and was in a second-level state of intoxication, as confirmed by the commander of the Bogotá transit police, Jhon Silva. Furthermore, that day he would have exceeded the speed limit and would have been driving a restricted traffic vehicle. The mayor of Bogotá, Carlos Fernando Galán, called for a prison sentence for Chalá: “We reiterate our commitment to make the person responsible pay for his actions,” he declared in The judge in the case has already issued preventive detention against him while the investigation continues.
According to the mayor, between 2024 and 2025 so far, more than 1,000 people have died in road accidents in Bogota. The District Mobility Observatory has recorded a constant increase in the number of serious accidents with deaths in recent years, going from 462 in 2021 to 581 in 2024. To date, in 2025, it has already recorded 470 deaths. Motorcyclists are the road actors who account for the greatest number of road accidents: this year 191 died, followed by 156 pedestrians, 43 cyclists, 12 passengers and 7 drivers. Furthermore, as Galán explained in his report “A journey by motorbike is almost four times riskier than one on foot,” the president said.
