Ambulance Crushed Between Trucks on BR-153 Kills Two in Tocantins

Overview

• An ambulance from Rio dos Bois was caught in a multi-vehicle pileup on BR-153 at km 392, which crushed the cabin and killed driver Weliton Corrêa Nolêto and passenger Gildete Carvalho Pires.
• The crash occurred on Wednesday night and involved two heavy trucks identified as a Scania and a DAF, with firefighters extricating three survivors who were taken to the Hospital Regional de Miracema.
• The 66ª Delegacia de Polícia de Miranorte is leading the technical investigation and forensic work while the bodies were sent to the Núcleo de Medicina Legal of Paraíso do Tocantins for examination.
• Related highway and urban incidents in the same period include a separate fatal head-on collision on BR-153 that killed motorcyclist Idevaldo Soares Costa and a Copacabana pavement crash in Rio de Janeiro that has produced homicide-by-negligence charges against the driver.
• Officials and local leaders have expressed mourning and concern over road safety on BR-153, a major truck route that regularly exposes patient-transport crews and other vulnerable users to high risks, so investigators’ findings and any transport-safety measures will be closely watched.