eleven wounded, including two in serious condition, was the result of a collision that took place on Tuesday morning., no IP8, at km 58,2, next to Monte da Ferra, in Ferreira do Alentejo county.
The accident occurred at about 05,54 hours and involved a light passenger vehicle of 9 places, transporting agricultural workers and a light mix of goods, from which resulted 2 serious injuries, 8 light, all transported to Hospital de Beja and one assisted on site.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN) with source of fire, those involved are three Moldovan women and eight Portuguese men, aged between 26 and 65 year old.
For reasons yet to be determined, the mixed car, who followed in the north / south direction, entered the opposite lane and crashed into the rear side of the passenger vehicle, who followed in the opposite direction. On the asphalt there is a brake with approx. 30 meters that may have been caused by this last vehicle, when the driver noticed that the other vehicle was invading his lane.
On site were 27 operational, the Volunteer Firefighters of Beja and Ferreira do Alentejo and Beja, medical emergency and resuscitation vehicle and GNR, supported by 12 vehicles, 10 of which firefighters.
The transit on IP8, connecting Beja to Ferreira do Alentejo, Sines and Lisbon, the vast majority of goods transport trucks that make the journey to and from Spain, is conditioned, doing only for one of the carriageways.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
