According to the PSP, the six young people burned to death after crashing a light vehicle that caught fire after the collision this Sunday morning, on Avenida das Forças Armadas.
Dinarte Diniz highlighted that theThe causes of the accident are being investigated by the PSP Road Accident Investigation Brigade, together with the Public Ministryand it has yet to be determined whether the driver had a driving license, taking into account that he had a citizen card as his identification document.
The PSP commissioner also highlighted that the car was overcrowded: “there were six passengers, two [pessoas] in the front and four in the back seat”, so it can be concluded that at least one young man did not have a seat belt.
According to Dinarte Diniz, it was a PSP agent working at the United States embassy in Lisbon who witnessed the accident and alerted the authorities.
“Everything happened very quickly. The officer witnessed the accident, but when he arrived at the scene the vehicle was already on fire and he immediately activated the emergency resources. After a few minutes, the emergency resources were at the scene”he said, realizing that the car hit the sidewalk and was thrown into the parking lot.
At the scene of the accident, in the Sete Rios area, there were the PSP, INEM, doctors from the National Institute of Legal Medicine (INML) and firefighters.
The commissioner also said that there is some information that the young people may all be friends and indicated that some family members are in the INML.