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Fatal Road Crashes Across Brazil Trigger Police Inquiries Guided by CCTV

Investigators are using footage to test drivers’ accounts for potential charges.

Overview

  • In Ipatinga (MG), security video showed 22-year-old motorcyclist Monique da Silva Pires stopping at a rotatory before a truck failed to obey the sign and struck her, contradicting the driver’s claim that he had stopped.
  • In Campo Grande (MS), Icenira Gironde Madalena, 55, died after the motorcycle she rode as a passenger braked when a truck entered a crossing, causing the couple to fall under the vehicle as police collected evidence and administered a breath test to the driver.
  • On the BR-116 in Santa Rita de Minas (MG), motorcyclist Silas Alves Costa, 56, was killed in a collision with a truck at km 534, marking the third fatal crash in the same stretch in three days, according to the highway concessionaire.
  • In Jutaí (AM), a woman died when a dump truck ran over her during a tight turn captured on surveillance cameras, and the driver was taken to the local precinct and remains detained as a Civil Police inquiry is opened.
  • In Juazeiro do Norte (CE), a construction foreman fleeing a bee swarm ran into the roadway and was fatally struck, with authorities confirming the driver stayed at the scene as procedures began.