Beja: tire burst at the origin of the fire car accident.
A autotanque of Beja Volunteer Firefighters, with five operating aboard capsized and made three wounded and two light. One of them was discharged in the early evening. Burst a rear tire, will be at the origin of the accident, between Serpa and Pias.
Five operational, four men and a woman, aged 20 and 60 year old, Firemen Beja Volunteers, They were injured yesterday following the screening of a car autotanque, as we drove to a forest fire, Pias, Serpa county.
The accident occurred at 14.50 hours, at km 116 State highway(IN) 255, that connects those two locations, having to register three serious injuries and two light, all transported to the Emergency Department of Beja Hospital. The wounded that inspires more care is the driver, Manuel Tickets, 60 year old, one of the most experienced drivers of the corporation, which features a leg fracture and head trauma suspected. One of the minor injuries was discharged in the early evening.
An area of ​​twists and turns near the river Enchoé, the left rear tire burst, He forced the vehicle to rotate right, He left the road and fell into a ravine. After flipping over on its left side the vehicle double-locked and froze laterally over 70 meters tire bursting site.
The car was completely destroyed and must be felled to the effective and the corporation is not in mourning due to the tubular strengthening the resistance of the cabin that stand the impacts on the ground and refused to abate the cabin and crush the occupants.
Traffic in EN 255 was closed for an hour and a half and was reopened only in a range, towards Serpa / Pias, to the rugged autotanque have been removed from what has happened at nightfall.
Relief effort were 35 operating of Serpa Fire, Moura and Ourique, VMER of Beja, SIV de Moura, GNR and District Command Operations and Relief, supported by 15 vehicles.
Manuel Baganha (Comandante B.V. Beja):
"After the Monchique fire we changed tires. Let's find out what caused the burst. In the middle of chance, no deaths to mourn. We had two pump trucks, this goes for scrap, we were amputees. A new car of this kind costs near 180 a thousand euros".
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
