Two-year-old child dies victim of serious accident between van and truck on BR-230, in PB

A 2-year-old child died in the early hours of Thursday (29), after being admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Campina Grande Emergency and Trauma Hospital. She was injured in the accident between a van and a pickup truck that left six dead and 15 injured on BR-230, in Paraíba, on Tuesday (27).

The information was released by the hospital in this Thursday's medical bulletin. According to the health unit, the child died at 12:17 am.

With the death of the child, the number of fatalities from the accident reached seven. Another six people died on Tuesday (27), four of them in the van and two in the truck.

See who the victims of the accident are:

Hemerson Ferreira da Silva Galdino, 28 years old: driver of the truck;

Ana Vitória da Silva, 19 years old: occupant of the truck;

Doracy Moreira, age not disclosed: passenger in the van;

João dos Santos Silva, age not disclosed: van driver;

Ana Cristina Felix Holanda, age not disclosed: passenger in the van;

João Paulo Rodrigues Pereira, 14 years old: teenager who was in the van.

Of the six people who initially died in the accident, only two were related to each other. According to the Civil Police, the victims were in the truck and were a couple in a stable relationship. The other four dead had no family ties.

The collision happened at km 227 of BR-230, between Juazeirinho and Soledade. According to the Civil Police, the van was carrying at least 18 people. Four occupants of the vehicle died, as did the two occupants of the truck.

According to an investigation by TV Paraíba, the van had left Itaporanga, in the Sertão of the state, during the early hours of the morning to take cancer patients to hospitals in Campina Grande and João Pessoa.

The truck had left Alagoa Nova and was heading to the Juazeirinho fair, transporting goods.

The main hypothesis investigated by the Federal Highway Police (PRF) is that the driver of the van entered the oncoming lane and collided head-on with the truck. The causes of the accident are still investigated.

The Municipality of Itaporanga, where the van involved in the accident left, released a note of condolence lamenting the deaths of patients undergoing cancer treatment. The municipal management reported that it is monitoring the investigation of the case.

The injured were taken to the Campina Grande Emergency and Trauma Hospital.