Um baby 14 months, one of the serious victims, of the accident that occurred late Friday afternoon at IP2, at the São Matias/Cuba intersection, in Beja county, fight for life at D.Estefânia Hospital, in Lisbon. The mother, of 24 year old, She was admitted to the Emergency Department of Hospital de Beja and is stable, not in danger of life.
The accident, a frontal collision, It occurred at about 18,10 hours, at the only intersection of IP2 that is not uneven, and caused five deaths, four men and a woman, aged 20 and 44 year old, and two seriously injured, a woman, of 24 years and your son, of 14 months.
The Lidador News (LN) found that four of the fatal victims, who were traveling in a VW Passat pickup truck, belong to the Reis family, coming from Moura and are the mother, two sons and a nephew, while the injured woman is the daughter-in-law and the baby is the matriarch's grandson. In another car, um Opel Corsa, a man was traveling, resident in Beja.
The causes of the accident are being investigated by military personnel from the Criminal Investigation Unit in Road Accidents (NICAV) da GNR, but it seems, It would have been due to the VW Passat crashing into an Opel Corsa, who was traveling in the opposite lane.
In the van, which went towards Beja-Vidigueira (South North), six people were traveling on board, three men, two women and baby, will have hit the central pins of the road, the cement separator jumped, invaded the other lane and collided with the car, that was traveling in the opposite direction, where the only occupant was the driver.
When the means of rescue, arrived at the location, the five fatal victims were corpses, the deaths were confirmed by the doctor in the emergency and resuscitation medical vehicle (VMER) Beja. The extrication operations of two of them, it took many minutes, given the amalgamation of sheets into which the two vehicles were transformed,. Due to the seriousness of the situation, the INEM helicopter was immediately mobilized, based in Faro, who would transport the baby to the Lisbon hospital unit.
In addition to INEM's aircraft and VMER, around fifty firefighters from the Beja fire department were at the scene, Cuba and Vidigueira, supported by twenty vehicles. According to what LN found out from the GNR Public Relations Office in Beja, both vehicles had valid insurance and inspections.
Very dangerous and deadly crossing
By the kilometer 330,6 do IP2, the access junction to EN258-1 is located, What does Cuba serve?, the only one that is not uneven in the section of 80 kilometers between Beja and Évora, even after many others were built in that section, namely, at the accesses to Vila de Frades, Vidigueira, Portel, Mount Wheat, São Manços and Reguengos de Monsaraz. At the so-called São Matias/Cuba intersection, There have been several accidents with fatalities.
Gathering of family and friends
The fateful accident was barely known, hundreds of people, between family and friends of victims living in Moura, they moved to the access to the Hospital de Beja and later to the yard and parking lot of the Mortuary Houses, where the victims cried. Has learned the JN, autopsies on the bodies of the five fatal victims should only take place next Tuesday, the Medico-Legal Office Beja.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
