Overview
- Brazil’s Federal Highway BR-101 near Mucurí recorded at least 11 deaths after a Chevrolet S10 and a Fiat Dobló collided head-on and burst into flames, with police examining an improper overtaking maneuver as the main hypothesis.
- Authorities and the road operator Ecovias Capixaba said 10 victims died at the scene and one at a hospital, including two children and a pregnant woman, and some victims require DNA testing for identification as one survivor remains in critical condition.
- On Japan’s Kan-etsu Expressway in Gunma, more than 50 vehicles crashed during heavy snow, killing two people and injuring 26, as sections between Tsukiyono and Yuzawa remain closed while police assess the role of frozen surfaces and low visibility.
- In Guatemala’s Totonicapán department, a passenger bus plunged about 100 meters off the Inter-American Highway, leaving 15 dead and over 20 injured, as the government declared three days of national mourning and forensic identification continued.
- Separate regional incidents included a head-on collision on Argentina’s National Route 3 that killed a married couple and left their 13-year-old daughter hospitalized, with prosecutors opening a case preliminarily labeled double culpable homicide.