Four young people, 18 and 19 years old, died this morning in an accident in Melgaço, in the district of Viana do Castelo. The light vehicle crashed on Municipal Road 202, ending up colliding with a tree, said a GNR source, cited by Lusa.
According to the Newspaper, the young people were at a meeting of friends (with 25 to 30 other young people) that they usually held at the Lamas de Mouro campsite. They are all from the Melgaço area. In the car, which crashed and crashed into a tree, then caught fire, six young people.
Three of the fatal victims died at the scene and another died on the way to Viana do Castelo Hospital. In that hospital unit, two more victims are hospitalized, one of them in a serious condition. The other is out of danger.
The accident was caused by a challenge, which involved accelerating the car on a secondary road with little traffic. That is a road, say the residents of the area, that is often used by “acceleras”.