A light goods van carrying pyrotechnic material crashed this Thursday afternoon at kilometer 27 State highway (IN) 257, next to the Picnic Park of Alvito, about what 4 kilometers from this village, having the conductor, of 40 year old, got incarcerated.
The alert for the accident, whose causes are unknown, was given about 15,10 hours and the car traveling north/south, from Viana do Alentejo to Alvito, carried batteries of fireworks, called category explosives 1.3, unknown the amount of objects that the vehicle carried.
According to information from a source from the Lower Alentejo Sub-Regional Emergency and Civil Protection Command (CSREPCBA) “a security perimeter was set up and the EN257 was closed to traffic between 3:45 pm and 5:02 pm to be transferred to another vehicle belonging to the company that owns the pyrotechnic material. The conductive, light wound, was assisted on site by the VMER team”, justified.
For the site were mobilized 13 Alvito Volunteer Firefighters, medical car emergency and resuscitation (VMER) do Hospital de Beja e GNR, supported by five cars.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
