Wagon wrapped in an accident with six dead in Uberlândia was at 120 km / h, says PRF | Minas Gerais Triangle

The serious accident was recorded at the time the section, at km 602, was interrupted for work after a fire. The truck driver could not stop and hit four cars and a truck, which were in the running and were thrown off the track.

The cases will be investigated more effectively by the authorities, but according to the PRF inspector Leonardo Pires, the expertise was triggered and confirmed at high speed.

"The forecaster anticipated that the tachograph of the vehicle was 120 km / h and that the authorized speed was 80 km / h The signaling in the section was effective because the other vehicles stopped. indicates that the main factor of the accident was speed, "he commented.

Some road users complained about the lack of signs, and the inspector reported that There were cones near the site of the first occurrence and a vehicle of PRF signage to drivers since Friday 8 pm (6).

He also stated that the police had taken all necessary measures and that A second vehicle, which provided support at the time of the second accident, had to leave the section to get to another event in the BR-050.

The case will be forwarded to the civilian police for to open an investigation.

The motorist has left the car a few moments before the collision

The technical badistant of the machine, Jonathan Araújo, was one of the survivors of the accident and was driving one of the cars struck by the carriage. He said that he got out of the car to see why the lane was closed, and almost instantly he heard the truck cars braking and dragging the other vehicles.

The accident was recorded around 6 am when prohibiting the BR-365 section near the bridge of the Araguari River. According to the PRF, the ban was held for the removal of a car that had caught fire on Friday night.

The vehicle was carrying a cargo of rice and work was done on the site to clean up the remnants of the fire and, as a result, there was the containment of the road with some vehicles stopped.

At the time, the cart loaded with sugarcane bagbade struck stationary vehicles and chased them off both sides of the runway.

Five people from Uberlândia and one from São Gotardo, in Alto Paranaíba, died at the time, four of them belonging to the same family. The bodies were taken and identified at the Instituto Médico Legal (IML).