Beja: Two young men and a woman were killed. A wounded was transferred to hospital in Lisbon.
three dead, two men and a woman, a very serious injured and a serious, both men, It was the result of a violent collision between two passenger cars. One of the wounded was transferred to the Hospital of St. Joseph, in Lisbon.
The accident occurred at about the 21,30 Sunday hours, the National Road (IN) 18, in Beja / connection Aljustrel, direction north / south, about what 8 kilometers from the capital Alentejo.
The fatalities are José Rebocho, 27 year old, and Nuno Rato, 26, residents Selmes, county Vidigueira, rider and passenger of a van Renault Megane and Maria Gonçalves Custody, 51 year old, resident in Penedo Gordo, municipality of Beja and hanging from a car Opel Vectra.
The serious hurt is a Romanian citizen 25 year old, Ciobotaiu Razvan, resident Pedrogão, county Vidigueira, the third occupant of the Renault, after that delivered to the Beja Hospital, He was transferred to the Hospital of St. Joseph, in Lisbon, risking their lives. The other injured, José Custódio is Mil-Men, 46 year old, the driver Opel, who is admitted to the Emergency Department of the Alentejo unit, and, been considered serious, but out of danger.
For reasons not yet cleared by the authorities, but everything points to speeding the Renault Megane, then that the north / south direction and a few minutes before had left the Penedo Gordo locality, a 3 kilometers from the crash site. In clay, first one, and asphalt, after, the marks are visible about the vehicle cm meters and returned to enter via, crossing the road, when it laterally embatida, by Opel circulating in the opposite direction, having as target the same locale Penedo Gordo.
While this vehicle is immobilized on the road ditch, two 2/3 meters of clash, the violence of impact, the van Renault spun on itself, having been turned in the same sense that followed, North South.
The five victims were imprisoned in two cars, taking place in lost life Nuno Rato (to esquerda na foto) Custody and Maria Gonçalves, while José Rebocho (right in the picture), it would initially be transported in the helicopter INEM, based in Evora and landed on the road dirt parallel to EN18, He was taken to the Beja Hospital, in cardiac arrest, where died some time later.
In the rescue operations were involved in the fire and Beja Odemira, whose ambulance went on site when the accident happened, Traffic and military detachments and Territorial GNR, involving 28 operational and 13 Car.
At the site were also INEM media, that mobilized 6 operating the medical car and emergency resuscitation (VMER) and helicopter based in Évora, which turned out to be demobilized, without transporting the wounded.
The EN18 was cut to movement in either direction for three hours, Alternatively the link having Beja / Aljustrel and vice versa, IP2. The bodies of the three victims were taken to the Forensic Medical Bureau of Beja, which will be autopsied.
Military Criminal Investigation Unit of Traffic Accidents (NICAV), that were in place, They are investigating the causes of the accident.
KMS HIDDEN MARCOS
Given the height of the grass verges and in the lack of cleanliness by the Infrastructure Portugal, overnight at GNR could not find the kilometric landmarks and accuracy to identify the kilometer in the accident, situation witnessed by LN on site.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
