Camera captures moment when car collapses toll ceiling; driver died The 24-year-old driver who died after knocking down the cover of a toll booth in Campinas (SP), on Sunday (26), avoided other cars and did not try to brake before crashing. The information comes from a witness and appears in the police report (BO) registered by the Civil Police. According to the document, an employee at the toll plaza saw the moment the vehicle headed towards the booths. The car hit the concrete structure that divides the lanes, overturned and hit the support column, which caused the roof to collapse. Highway police officers were carrying out an operation nearby, heard the bang and rushed to the scene. They found the driver unconscious. A team from the Renovias dealership took the young man to the Jaguariúna Municipal Hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries and died. ?READ ALSO: Car reached 6 meters in height when it hit a toll booth ceiling in the interior of SP Driver dies after car crashes into a toll plaza, knocking down the roof and overturning in Campinas 'Car flew over ours', says witness of accident that destroyed toll booth Roof of toll plaza on the Campinas-Mogi Highway fell to the ground after crash Jorge Talmon/EPTV Objects seized The BO also lists the items found by police inside the car, including: a lighter and four cigarettes; a bottle of rum; an empty beer can; a thermos cup; an almost empty soda bottle; and an empty plastic tube, known as an eppendorf. The front of the car that crashed into a toll plaza was destroyed in Campinas Jorge Talmon/EPTV What the accident was like The collision occurred around 9:50 am, at kilometer 123 of the Governador Adhemar Pereira de Barros Highway (SP-340). Security cameras recorded when the car passed through the side area of ??the cabins, hit the barrier and hit the six-meter-high roof, which collapsed. The concrete structure fell onto two other cars waiting in line at the toll booth. The seven people in these vehicles were not injured. The case was registered in the 4th Police District as culpable homicide (when there is no intention to kill) while driving a motor vehicle. Camera captures moment when car collapses toll ceiling in Campinas; driver died Reproduction/EPTV Reconstruction will be defined after inspection Renovias will carry out a technical inspection to assess the damage and define how the toll booth will be reconstructed. There is still no estimate of the financial loss. On Monday morning (27), the toll plaza was partially operational. Three manual and three automatic cabins were in operation, while four others remained closed. Infographic shows map where car crashed into toll booth in Campinas; driver died Arte/g1 VIDEOS: everything about Campinas and the region
Without braking, driver dodged other cars before tearing down toll booth, says witness
Camera captures moment when car collapses toll ceiling; driver died The 24-year-old driver who died after knocking down the cover of a toll booth in Campinas (SP), on Sunday (26), avoided other cars and did not try to...
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