20-year-old young man dies after nine days in hospital following a traffic accident in São Luís

Naquira Santos Ferreira, aged 20, died this Wednesday (19), after spending nine days in hospital due to injuries suffered in a traffic accident in the Angelim neighborhood, in São Luís. She was among the six people who were injured after the car in which the group was traveling hit a pole and overturned on Avenida Jerônimo de Albuquerque, on August 10.

The accident happened in the early hours of August 10, on Avenida Jerônimo de Albuquerque, in the Angelim neighborhood, in São Luís. Six young people, aged between 17 and 21 — three men and three women — were in a Toyota Etios that hit a pole and overturned. According to witnesses, the vehicle was traveling at high speed when the driver lost control of the steering wheel.