Driver Dies After Truck Falls From Marginal Tietê Bridge as Road Crashes Hit Multiple Brazilian States

Overview

• Josemberg Alves de Oliveira, 35, died after suffering cardiorespiratory arrest en route to the hospital when a truck carrying four people plunged from the Ponte Atílio Fontana on São Paulo’s Marginal Tietê.
• Firefighters deployed nine vehicles and a Military Police helicopter to the bridge crash, rescuing three survivors who were initially conscious and prompting an express-lane shutdown with congestion reaching the Castello Branco highway.
• On BR-040 in Barbacena (MG), a box truck loaded with five tonnes of fireworks collided with a semi, trapping the driver, who was extricated by firefighters and taken by Samu as causes remain under review.
• A gasoline tanker and a car collided head-on on BR-101 in Laje (BA), overturning the truck and leaking fuel, injuring the tanker driver; PRF reported a full closure overnight with traffic fully restored by about 6:30 a.m.
• In other cases under inquiry, a runaway truck damaged a Divinópolis furniture store after an alleged brake failure with no injuries, two men died in a motorcycle–truck crash in Arraial do Cabo (RJ), and a 3-year-old was fatally struck by a bus in Ubatuba (SP) in a case logged as culpable homicide.