A 28-year-old woman died in an accident on MG-010, in the Vista Alegre neighborhood, in Vespasiano, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte.
According to the Fire Department, the victim was with two other women in a taxi that was hit by a truck. They were returning from a show in São Paulo.
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The driver would have lost control of the vehicle, went the wrong way and collided with the car and only stopped after hitting the air force wall and a neighboring company.
The accident occurred around 6:30 pm, near the entrance to Lagoa Santa, towards Belo Horizonte. The truck driver said he experienced vibrations on the road and lost steering control. He would have warned the owner of the trailer that the vehicle had oscillations in direction when passing through uneven places.
The other women, aged 24 and 26, suffered minor injuries. The truck and taxi drivers were rescued and taken to Risoleta Neves Hospital, in Belo Horizonte.