(Updated) Penedo Gordo / Beja: Three dead and two seriously injured in collision.
UPDATED: A couple of 27 year old, driver of the vehicle, He succumbed to his injuries and died in Beja Hospital, by raising to three the number of fatal victims.
The head-on collision between two passenger caused three dead and two seriously injured. The accident occurred in EN 18 three kilometers from Penedo Gordo, county Beja.
Three people were killed in a head-on collision between two cars occurred on Sunday evening, cerca the 21.50 hours, the National Road 18, connecting Beja and Aljustrel, in Beja county, about eight kilometers from the city.
One of the vehicles will have entered into screening, eventually hitting that followed in the opposite direction.
A vehicle Renault Megane, who followed in the north / south direction, who had left moments before the accident Penedo Gordo, county Beja, They lost their lives José Rebocho, 27 years and Nuno Rato, 25 year old, taking is seriously injured a young man of Romanian nationality 25 year old. To determine possible are all residents in Selmes, county Vidigueira.
In another car, to Opel Astra, that was bound for Mount Rasquinha, near Penedo Gordo, county Beja, He died at the scene Maria Gonçalves Custody, 51 year old, having the individual who drove the car, 46 year old, suffered serious injuries.
The three fatalities were transported to the Medical-Legal Office Beja., while the two seriously injured, They are under observation in Beja Hospital ER.
In the rescue operations were firefighters and Beja Odemira, with four ambulances and a car extrication, INEM, with a car and a helicopter, and also the GNR.
One of the serious injuries turned out not to be transported by air means to have been reversed cardiac arrest, but passed away.
The road on which the accident occurred was cut off the circulation in both directions for more than two hours.
Given the height of the grass berm and lack of cleanliness by the Infrastructure Portugal, GNR had trouble finding the kilometric landmarks and accuracy to identify the kilometer to the accident, He noted Lidador News (LN) no local.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
