Beja: Identified fatalities. Malaise driver or mechanical failure may have been fatal.
Already the bodies of the three fatalities of the bus screening of expressed Renex network were identified, It occurred at the end of Friday afternoon at A2. It is a Guimarães man and two women, one is Faro and the other of German nationality.
Update
The Sunday edition of the Journal News (JN) reveals that the three people who died in the accident that occurred near the service area of ​​Gomes Aires (Almodovar), They are: José Manuel Moura, 44 year old, Guimarães, Maria Mestre, 73 year old, de Faro, e Sheubert Astrid, of 49 year old, German nationality. As stated in txto below published, the identification was made by family, through the belongings that were taken by the military Gomes Traffic Sub-detachment Aires GNR.
Initial text Lidador News, before upgrading
What is known is that they are two women and one man, They will be between 45 and 50 year old. One of the first elements linked to the rescue of the victims who arrived at the scene, Lidador told the News (LN) that "the scene was macabre. The bodies were dismembered, broken and completely unrecognizable ".
According to found the LN, family members of these people were in the early hours of yesterday next to the Gabinete Legal-Medical facilities, in Beja Hospital, but they have will be moved to Sub-posting of Ourique Traffic GNR, to try to identify the assets of the victims and so come up to their identities. The bodies were transported in ambulances of Beja Fire, and the names of three deaths were reported as "unknown", since in his possession did not exist any document that would allow to know their names.
As for the causes of the accident, a sudden unwillingness to Joaquim Matos, 51 year old, bus driver, It may have been on the road output of the origin and subsequent rollover, on the right side.
This version, the same that have been given to the driver GNR, It was made at the end of the evening by the Emergency Department of Beja Hospital, by a relative of one of the bus passengers who made the connection between Lagos and the Gare do Oriente, in Lisbon.
According to this person, the driver will be told that "he felt unwell and has been suggested to stop him in the service area", what did not happen and 700 meters after passing the site, bus overturned.
Yesterday when Joaquim Matos was transferred to the Hospital Beatriz Angelo, in Loures (na photos), the unit closest to your residence, which is in Saint Adrian de Varzim, Carlos Delgado, longtime friend of the driver said that "my wife said she felt the bus to flee to the right and could not control". These words of the driver were made after it has been entered in the Emergency Department of Beja Hospital, the night of the accident, which contradicts the version of an indisposition.
In the driver, found that according to the LN, always presented a clinical regarded as "stable", and patents fractures in two ribs, another injured was transferred to the Loures Hospital. By not exist in Beja, plastic surgery unit, two other injured were transferred to Lisbon, respectively, for Hospitals of St. Mary and St. Joseph. The remaining seven injured were discharged even during the night of Friday. Of these eleven injured, seven had been transported to the Beja Hospital and four for the Castro Verde Health Centre, the remaining six had been evacuated to the hospital in Faro.
Joaquim Matos, It is a native of the Hawk Watchtower, Hawk county, District of Portalegre, He lives in Saint Adrian de Varzim, He is married and has two children, with 16/ 17 year old. According to his friend Carlos Delgado, working in Beja and went to the hospital to see his friend, told LN, it is "a very experienced driver. It has a life dedicated to this profession, will have a 30 year driver ", justified. After the driver into the ambulance, Carlos told family friend of his health, leaving them more quiet.
As for autopsies of the three fatalities, It shall happen tomorrow and only then will be allowed to see the corpses family to be able to recognize and identify.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
