The screams were swallowed by the dark.<\/p>\n
On a remote stretch of BR-251, a van full of workers met a heavy truck head-on \u2014 and in seconds, families were destroyed.<\/p>\n
Nine people, including a child, never made it home.<\/p>\n
At kilometer 446 of BR-251, near the rural community of Barroc\u00e3o in Gr\u00e3o Mogol,<\/p>\n
a van returning workers to Cear\u00e1 collided head-on with an empty heavy-haul truck traveling toward Rio Grande do Sul.<\/p>\n
The impact threw both vehicles off the road into difficult terrain, turning rescue into a race against time in the dark and rain.<\/p>\n
Firefighters, SAMU, federal highway police, and forensic teams struggled to reach victims trapped in crushed metal, using hydraulic tools to free the living and recover the dead.<\/p>\n
Nine people in the van died at the scene, among them a child; eight others were injured, including another child and a man in critical condition.<\/p>\n
The truck\u2019s two occupants survived with minor wounds.<\/p>\n
As investigators analyze tire marks, weather, and road design, this crash exposes once more the lethal combination that made BR-251 infamous as the \u201croad of death\u201d: heavy traffic, dangerous curves, fragile infrastructure, and political delay.<\/p>\n
Behind the statistics are families shattered forever, waiting not just for answers, but for change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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