Ivo Lucas, Cristina Branco and Paulo Neves, drunk and speeding driver, will face trial for negligent homicide in the death of Sarah Carreira, it was decided this Monday in a reading of the trial judgment in the Santarem Court.
Thiago Pacheco, who collided with a car carrying Ivo Lucas and Sara Carreira after it overturned, is also on trial for dangerous driving. Ivo Lucas will answer for the same crime.
In court, the judge stated that at the time of the accident the floor was in good condition and without groundwater, and that the fado singer Cristina Branco did not deviate in time, as did Ivo Lucas.
The actor was driving at a speed of 130 km / h and did not slow down, approaching the immobilized car. The car collided while trying to deviate and stopped 66 meters from the accident site.
According to the judge, both the fado performer and Ivo Lucas remained inattentive. If [Cristina Branco] If he hadn’t dragged the girl out of the car, “there would have been another victim,” the judge said. The fado singer had to signal the accident with a triangle.
Paulo Neves was driving below the legal limit on the highway and under the influence of alcohol. Thiago Pacheco, on the other hand, knew he was speeding and that he should have kept more distance from other vehicles, the judge said.
Defendants have 15 days to pay traffic fines.
Leaving the court, Tony Carreira talked to reporters. “I’m not here to take revenge on anyone,” he said. “I’m just sorry that none of the defendants sent me a message or wrote a letter saying they were sorry about what happened,” he said.
The process returned to the briefing phase after last November the Office of the Public Prosecutor (MP) brought a new charge to remedy the shortcomings cited in February 2022 by the Santarém Criminal Investigation Court, a decision confirmed in September by the court. Evora relationship.
Sarah Carreira’s parents, Antonio (Tony Carreira) and Fernanda Antunes, who became assistants in this process, again asked Cristina Branco and Thiago Pacheco to ask for the opening of the training.
Singer Cristina Branco was the only one of the four involved in the accident who wanted to testify at the beginning of the investigation, describing to the judge what happened in the accident.
The accident that killed Sarah Carreira took place on December 5, 2020 on the A1 motorway between Santarém and Cartaxo. Cristina Branco collided with the car of Paulo Neves, who was driving at low speed. The car of the fado singer turned on the road in the opposite direction. The car in which Sarah Carreira and Ivo Lucas were traveling appeared a few minutes later, colliding with the car of Cristina Branco. Soon after, another car will crash, following it at a higher speed.