Ourique: Head-on collision kills businessmen in Castro Verde and São Bartolomeu de Messines.
A head-on collision between two light goods, It led to the death of two businessmen, drivers of two cars, following the invasion contrary via the vehicle traveling in the South / North direction, with origin of the Algarve.
For reasons not yet determined, but the most likely causes are drowsiness or sudden illness, the vehicle driven by Anthony Joseph belt Carrasqueiro, of 61 year old, industry entrepreneur construction and power, resident in the village of Amarosa, in São Bartolomeu de Messines, collided head-on with the other, crewed by Jorge Manuel Nunes Cabrita, 60 year old, businessman linked to the cattle business, in Castro Verde, causing the death of two men.
The accident occurred at about 07,48 hours yesterday, on Route Complementary (IC) 1, at km 684,9, the Wolf Portela Zone, municipality of Ourique, one of the areas "darkest and fateful" that via.
From janeiro de 2016 that IC1 zone eight people have died, five of them from the last day 1 of September. On this day one BMW car, manned by a woman, invaded the contrary via struck another light. The violence of the crash was such that the engine powerful car, He went up and stood over 100 meters from the shock site.
The crash site is composed of one lane in each direction, having the vehicle proceeding out of the Algarve, which started a rise where the road will have two lanes, going to hit the other, whose driver tried to leave the track to avoid the clash, what failed. In the clash of the site there is no the car braking signal coming the opposite way.
Given the serious condition of the two conductors, It has fired the helicopter INEM, based in Faro, having grounded air through the IC1, ending the doctor by limiting to confirm the death of two individuals, They do not survive their injuries.
Traffic in IC1, We were conditioned over five hours, taking up the flow it was done alternately by the track on the south / north direction, since in the area there are no alternative routes.
Relief effort were involved more than three dozen operations, supported by nine vehicles, of Ourique and Almodôvar Fire, the immediate support of car life (SIV) Castro Verde, Detachment of Traffic and Center for Traffic Accident Research (NICAV) da GNR e o helicóptero do INEM, parked in Faro.
The corpses of António Jorge Nunes Carrasqueiro and were transported to the Medico-Legal Office of Beja Hospital, which will be autopsied.
Characterization of the pathway
IC1 in the area known as Wolf Portela is characterized by having uphill, in both directions, South / North and North / South, two lanes, because two heavy. Despite the limitations in many areas of Route, overspeed many light mark the day-to-day way that.
It is a road often used by people in the municipalities of Ourique, southern part of Santiago do Cacém municipality and the Algarve municipalities of Silves and São Bartolomeu de Messines, both in terms of travel outing, but in particular business. With the increase in tolls, the IC1, won an overload of traffic, which brought more accidents and deaths.
accident data de1 January to 31 December 2016
Wolf Portela Zone: 21 accidents, with 3 dead (two occurred in accident 20 November), 4 serious injuries and 16 injured passenger. There are registering a service refusal and one wounded who left the crash site.
Intervention area of Ourique Fire: 67 accidents, with 4 dead, 20 serious injuries and 44 injured passenger.
accident data de1 January to 11 October 2017
Wolf Portela Zone: 11 accidents, with 5 dead, 3 serious injuries and 26 injured passenger. In the last three accidents recorded five dead (2 dead 1 September / BMW case, 1 He died in 8 October and 2 yesterday killed).
Intervention area of Ourique Fire: 35 accidents, with 5 dead, 9 serious injuries and 33 injured passenger.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
