Sobral da Adiça (Moura): four-year-old boy dies in accident, sister of 18 months in very serious condition.
A four-year-old boy died yesterday in EN385, near Sobral da Adiça, municipality of Moura, following the car of screening which followed with parents and baby sister 18 months, which was heliborne to a hospital in Lisbon.
The girl 18 months and the wife of 26 year old, They are in a state regarded as very serious and the man, of 23 year old, is injured slightly. This is a family residing in Vila Nova de São Bento, Serpa county, and would shift to Sobral da Adiça.
The screening took place at about 12,50 na hours 385, at km 52,2, next to the Homestead Palhais, the connection between Vila Verde Ficalho and Sobral da Adiça, when for unknown reasons, the vehicle, a small Opel Corsa, left the road hit a first olive, then a second, being immobilized on the axis, facing the place whence, the occupants having been imprisoned.
The crash site is a long straight and the road was wet due to the heavy downpour that had fallen minutes before the screening.
A helicopter INEM was still mobilized to the site, to transport baby, but the severity of your condition and the difficulty being stabilized, prevented the use of air means. The death of the boy of four years, It was confirmed on site by the physician VMER Beja.
The three injured were transported to the Emergency Department of the Hospital of Beja and the child's body to the Office-Medical Location, which should be autopsied.
By early yesterday evening, and then stabilized in Beja Hospital, the girl 18 heliborne months was an aircraft of the INEM, from the Air Base 11, for or Santa Maria Hospital, in Lisbon.
Relief effort were involved 27 supported by operating 11 Car of Moura and Serpa Fire, SIV, VMER and GNR military with the Territorial Detachment and NICAV.
Traffic on EN385 has been cut for four hours, between IP8 crossings in Vila Verde Ficalho, access to Spain and Sobral da Adiça, at the intersection with EN255-1, the link Moura.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
