Deadly Weekend on Brazil’s Roads Sparks Investigations Across Multiple States

Overview

• São Bernardo do Campo: four young people died when a car fell from a Rodoanel access ramp and police later confirmed one victim initially exited the vehicle but was fatally run over under the viaduct, with the case registered as choque and negligent homicide.
• In Espírito Santo’s Ibitirama, a 68-year-old man, his one-year-old son and a six-year-old stepdaughter were run over by a truck as they walked along the ES-185; the driver fled and police searches for the vehicle and suspect continued.
• On the GO-230 in Padre Bernardo (GO), five people died after a collision between two vehicles, including three elderly relatives and a six-year-old child, with three victims dying after hospital transport as police and forensic teams documented the scene.
• Near Balsas (MA), a mother, father and seven-year-old son were killed in a head-on crash on the BR-330; investigators are reviewing the truck driver’s account that a pickup swerved to avoid an unlit motorcycle and crossed into the opposite lane.
• Additional fatalities and injuries were reported in separate crashes, including a motorcyclist who struck a parked truck in Coronel Fabriciano (speed cited as a presumed cause), a 10-year-old who died in Sertãozinho after a pickup hit a embankment, and multiple serious motorcycle and car collisions under police inquiry.