Truck Driver Held in Indigenous Family Deaths as RS-115 DUI Suspect Jailed in Brazil Crash Wave

Overview

• In Pará, four members of the same Gavião family died when their car was crushed under a carreta on PA-150; the driver fled, was arrested by Civil Police, and transferred to the Marabá triage center as community members later set the truck on fire in protest.
• On RS-115, José Carlos Almeida Bessa is in preventive custody after a 0.70 mg/L breath test, with police citing visits to a bar and a nightclub before the collision that killed three cyclists and evidence that he left the scene but lost his front license plate.
• On BR-116 in Padre Paraíso (MG), video shows a tanker losing control on a wet curve and striking a car carrier; the carrier’s driver, Jhonata Marinho Teixeira, 27, died at the scene as investigators review the conditions.
• On MG-290 in Borda da Mata (MG), 84-year-old José Evangelista Cordeiro died after a crash with a truck captured by security camera, and police reported the truck driver’s breath test was negative and documents were regular.
• Police across multiple cases opened inquests, gathered surveillance images, ordered alcoolemia and toxicology exams, and sent vehicles for forensic analysis, including a fatal pileup inquiry in Santarém (PA) and serious collisions on MT-320 and MGC-259.