Fogbound Road in Brazil Becomes Deathtrap; 13 Die
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Thick fog blanketed sections of the main highway linking Sao Paulo with Rio de Janeiro early Saturday, and police blamed it for three chain-reaction accidents in which 13 people were killed and 45 were injured.
The accidents involved dozes of cars, trucks and buses near the town of Jacarei, 48 miles north of Sao Paulo, according to the highway patrol.
A patrol spokesman said the fog covered most of the Paraiba Valley and turned several miles of the busy Dutra highway connecting two of Brazil’s main cities into “a deadly trap.”
He gave this account:
Six people were killed, including four from one family, in an accident involving at least 25 vehicles. Two miles away, a truck driver was killed in a five-vehicle pileup.
Nearby, six people perished when four cars were engulfed in flames in an accident.
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