Overview

• Authorities confirmed eight deaths in the Campinorte collision on BR-153, including a couple and four children from Jaú do Tocantins after their car was rear‑ended and pushed into a head‑on with a truck that later struck a motorcycle.
• Police said the 46-year-old pickup driver tested 0.89 mg/l for alcohol, was arrested in flagrante and had his detention converted to preventive custody, with potential charges to be defined by the ongoing investigation.
• The Jaú do Tocantins city hall decreed three days of official mourning and suspended municipal services on Monday following the deaths of its six residents.
• Separate hit‑and‑run cases killed cyclists on AL-101 Sul near Barra de São Miguel and on SP-340 in Mococa, with state highway agencies reporting that the drivers fled and were not located at the scenes.
• In other incidents reported this weekend, a 10-year-old in Boa Vista died after being struck by an unlicensed driver who left the scene and now faces homicide culposo charges, a trucker died in a rollover near Corumbá, and a smoke‑related pileup on SP-300 in São Manuel left at least two dead and multiple injured while teams managed fires and traffic.