Traffic on National Road 260, near the village of Baleizão, in the municipality of Beja, is being carried out by alternating circulation after the loss of a bus, said source of GNR.
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30/10/2026
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Lusa
O transit on the National Road 260, near the village of Baleizão, in the municipality of Beja, is being carried out by alternating circulation after the total cleaning of the track, awaiting removal of the heavy vehicle, informed source of GNR.
Source of the territorial command of the Republican National Guard (GNR), in statements the agency Lusa, said that the cleaning of the wreckage of the National Road 260 (EN260) “have already ended”, and the transit to circulate alternately.
The bus that was lost in the EN260, near the village of Baleizão, in the municipality of Beja, and that made the route from Vila Verde de Estalho, in the municipality of Serpa, to Sete Rios, in Lisbon, is still on site, waiting for the trailer for its withdrawal.
GNG's Núcleo de Investigação de Crimes em Accidentos de Viação (NIVAC) was also at the scene investigating the causes of the accident.
The same source indicated that the bus performed “the time of 7:45” and carried “seven passengers and the driver” of the car.
The commander of the Voluntary Firefighters of Beja also explained that the bus carried passengers from Vila Verde de Fialho and Serpa and should “catch more people” in Baleizon and Beja.
According to the commander, the driver of the crashed bus has suffered a sudden illness.
“At the outset, the driver will have had a sudden illness, which will have caused the accident,” he said.
The accident alert was given at 8:35, involving the bus crash, which was “overturned on the side of the road,” said the fire commander.
The helicopter sent to the site was, however, demobilized, and the transport of the victims was carried out in ambulance, he added.
According to the commander of the Beja Volunteer Firefighters, Pedro Barahona, the fatal victim is 51 years old and was the driver of the heavy vehicle.
Also contacted by Lusa, source of the Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo (ULSBA), to which belongs the hospital of Beja, said they entered this unit the seven wounded from the accident, occurred on the National Road 260 (EN260).
In total, they are “four women and three men”, one of them a foreigner, aged “between 21 and 70”, indicated the source.
Of these seven bus passengers, two, one man and one woman, both 70 years old, “are seriously injured and entered the operating room,” he added.
The commander of the Beja Firefighters told Lusa that these two serious wounded “suffered amputations”.
“ They were trapped under the bus, but when the means of help arrived, they were already out, they were helped by the popular ", he said.
The accident mobilized 63 operatives, supported by 26 vehicles and the helicopter, including firemen, GNR and National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM).