Brazil Sees Deadly Wave of Road Crashes, Including Rodoanel Plunge That Killed Four

Overview

• Four young people died and one survived after a car fell about 10 meters from a Rodoanel access ramp in São Bernardo do Campo, with the case registered as choque and homicídio culposo and the SSP calling in perícia.
• On Maranhão’s BR-330 near Balsas, two separate crashes within 48 hours killed families traveling in pickups, including a head-on with a truck and a later collision with a bus, with the PRF probing causes.
• In Ibitirama (ES), a truck ran over a family walking along the ES-185, killing a 68-year-old father, his one-year-old son and a six-year-old stepdaughter, as the driver fled and police searches continued.
• In Gravataí (RS), two people on a motorcycle died when a load of bricks from a truck fell onto the bike on the RS-118, according to the municipal transit department.
• In São Paulo’s Vila Medeiros, a 25-year-old woman was fatally struck while approaching a crosswalk, with police reporting the driver was suspected of intoxication, fled the scene and later had the car located.