Overview

• Authorities confirmed the identities of all 17 people who died in the BR-423 rollover, and many injured passengers remain under care or were transferred from regional hospitals.
• PRF reports the tourism bus crossed into the opposite lane, hit roadside rocks, returned to its lane, struck a sandbank and overturned while returning from Santa Cruz do Capibaribe to Brumado.
• The administrative forensic work employs drones and a 3D scanner to map the site, alongside civil and scientific police inquiries that include vehicle inspection and document review.
• Elsewhere over the weekend, three people died and two were injured in a multi-vehicle collision on the BR-364 in Jaru, where the highway saw partial closures during rescue and forensic work.
• Additional serious crashes were recorded on Brazilian roads, including a suspected hit-and-run that killed a 63-year-old motorcyclist on the MGC-120 in Senhora do Porto and a BR-040 pileup in Carandaí that left one dead.