Overview

• PRF says a pickup hit the rear of a family car on BR-153 in Campinorte, sending it into oncoming traffic where it struck a loaded truck that overturned onto a motorcycle, leaving eight dead including six residents of Jaú do Tocantins.
• Jaú do Tocantins decreed three days of official mourning for the couple and four children, and local authorities said the family was traveling to a birthday celebration; the truck driver was injured and received hospital care.
• A six-vehicle pileup on the Marechal Rondon highway in São Manuel, São Paulo, was blamed on smoke from a vegetation fire, killing at least two and injuring five, as separate fires forced traffic controls on the SP-333 in Tarumã.
• In Paranavaí, Paraná, a two-year-old died after a rollover on BR-376 in which the child seat was ejected, and four relatives were hospitalized in serious condition while PRF investigates.
• Other reported crashes included a fatal truck rollover near Corumbá (MS), a deadly head-on between a semi and a pickup on SP-258 in Itapeva (SP), a car carrier hauling 11 electric cars toppling on the Dutra with one minor injury, and multiple motorcycle deaths in RN, AC and on the SP-191 in Araras.