Overview

• The BR-153 collision in Campinorte killed eight people, and the pickup driver who rear-ended a family’s car tested 0.89 mg/l on the breathalyzer, was arrested, and had his detention converted to preventive custody.
• Six victims were from Jaú do Tocantins, where the municipality decreed three days of official mourning and suspended public services on Monday.
• Police said the family’s car was pushed into oncoming traffic and hit a truck that then toppled onto a motorcycle, killing the rider and passenger, with the highway fully interdicted for rescue and perícia.
• In São Paulo state, an ethanol tanker overturned in Jaú with no leak or injuries, and the stretch remained completely closed under incident management, according to Artesp.
• Other weekend incidents included an RN driver arrested after a 0.86 mg/l result following a prohibited turn that gravely injured a mother and child on a motorcycle, a truck fire on the Washington Luís that spread to roadside vegetation without injuries, a car-carrier rollover on the Dutra with one minor injury and no lane closures, and active hit-and-run investigations after cyclist deaths on AL-101 and SP-340.