Overview

• Authorities say a pickup rear-ended a family’s car on BR-153 in Campinorte, sending it into the opposite lane where it hit a beverage truck that overturned onto a motorcycle.
• Eight people died, including six residents of Jaú do Tocantins from the same family, while the motorcycle’s rider and passenger were killed at the scene and the truck driver was hospitalized.
• The pickup driver fled but was found by Military Police, tested positive at 0.89 mg/L on a breathalyzer, was arrested in flagrante, and later had detention converted to preventive custody.
• Civil Police delegate Peterson Amin cites high-speed footage and intoxication as grounds to seek a homicide-doloso indictment under dolo eventual, with PRF reconstructions and other evidence being gathered.
• Jaú do Tocantins declared three days of official mourning and publicly identified the victims as investigations, forensic work, and judicial procedures continue.