Ourique: Passenger slight hit by two heavy in IC1. five wounded.
Two heavy goods abalroaram one passenger car in IC1, in Lobo Portela, municipality of Ourique. There were five injured. In the car traveled two children 6 and 11 year old.
five wounded, including two children 6 and 11 year old, It was the result of a violent shock chain, where a passenger car, with a double and two children aboard was rammed and got "stuck" between two heavy goods.
The accident occurred on Saturday, to 05,00 hours, the north / south direction, a descending phase of the road, at km 684,9 Complementary Itinerary (IC)1, the Wolf Portela Zone, near Santana da Serra, in Ourique county, when a truck collision with the rear of a passenger car causing this clash with the back of another heavy goods that followed ahead.
According to a witness who was at the scene, the origin of the accident "will have been a fuel spill that made the road slippery and control of vehicles impossible", justifying that this version was corroborated by the heavy driver who was not injured.
The accident there is the five injured registration, four of slight occupants, a couple, the man 30 year old, the wife of 41 year old, and two sons, a girl 6 years and a boy of 11 year old, resident Romeira (Santarém) and the second conductor heavy heavy, 58 year old, and living in Quarteira, Loulé.
The five people were transported to the Beja Hospital, was discharged in the early afternoon. Turn, transit through IC1 was closed to the 13,30 hours, having been re-opened towards south / north, making the circulation alternately.
While the IC 1 was closed in all the alternative A2 is the use of EM515 or, between Ourique and Aldeia dos Fernandes, a CM1166, between locality and Gomes Aires and then the EN393 which connects to IC1, near Santana da Serra.
At the crash site were 24 operating of Ourique Fire, Castro Verde and AlmodĂ´var, GNR Ourique and Infrastructure Portugal, supported by 11 Car.
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 1 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 1 January to 31 December 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)
