Ceará Prosecutors Denounce Bus Driver as Multiple Deadly Road Crashes Hit Brazil

Overview

• The Ministério Público do Estado do Ceará filed a denúncia on Sept. 24 charging driver Leandro da Silva with homicide culposo for the June 15 Tauá bus rollover that killed seven members of a youth basketball team.
• Police in Ceará had already indicted Leandro da Silva for homicide culposo and related bodily‑injury counts, and prosecutors say the pericial report found the road and vehicle were in good condition and pointed to a brusque maneuver by the driver.
• Separate crashes between Sept. 22 and Sept. 24 across several states killed multiple people and produced dozens of injuries, including a three‑fatality frontal crash in Tabatinga (SP) with two children critically hurt and a fatal multi‑truck pileup on BR‑163 in Rondonópolis (MT).
• Authorities and highway concessionaires repeatedly cited prohibited overtaking, lane invasions, signal running and signs of intoxication as recurring causes, and many investigations are awaiting laudos periciais from the PRF and local police to determine full responsibility.
• Firefighters, Samu teams and road crews have been mobilized nationwide for stabilization, extrication and traffic control, and prosecutors’ actions in Tauá could prompt similar forensic and criminal reviews in other serious collisions.