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Deadly Weekend of Crashes Across Brazil as Bus Plunges Into River and Driver Is Charged

Authorities escalate investigations, rescues, arrests after a string of fatal collisions.

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Overview

  • Tour bus fell into the Tocantins River in Tocantinópolis during a ferry approach after an alleged brake failure, leaving the off-duty driver dead and the surviving driver booked on vehicular homicide; 48 passengers and two drivers were on board.
  • Hit-and-run and head‑on crashes added to the toll, including a cyclist killed on BR‑262 in Bom Despacho, two deaths on BR‑324 in Bahia, a fatal car–carreta collision on RN‑117 near Mossoró, and a deadly car–truck crash on BR‑316 in Santa Inês.
  • Police reported multiple cases of suspected drunk driving: a driver was jailed after a fatal atropelamento in São João da Boa Vista, another was arrested after a BR‑158 crash that injured 10 in MS, and a pickup driver in Rio Branco refused a breath test after critically injuring a motorcyclist.
  • Video captured a driver forcing a motorcyclist into a pole in Ribeirão Preto before fleeing, and a judge ordered preventive detention of a woman in Santa Catarina on suspicion of attempted homicide after she ran down a man outside a police station.
  • A six‑vehicle pileup in Goiânia left one man dead and five injured as the suspected pickup driver tested positive for alcohol and was charged with intentional homicide, while separate incidents on Via Dutra involved a passenger thrown from a motorcycle and a subsequent multi‑truck crash.