Another fatality on the EN125, this time on the hill between Algarve Shopping and the roundabout at Guia.
The toll was one dead, a 48-year-old man (see reader's comment below for details) and two seriously injured who were rushed to Faro hospital.
The accident happened at around 15.30 with two vehicles involved in a high speed collision on the EN125 at Vale Verde.
The resulting wreckage ensured that the road was cut off for four hours as the police and ambulance services attended to the injured and cleared the area.
On the scene were 17 emergency vehicles with 37 personnel from Messines and Albufeira fire services, medics from the emergency ambulance service INEM, GNR officers from the Transit Brigade in Albufeira and representatives from the Rotas do Algarve company that manages the EN125.
The accident will add to claims by anti-tolls campaign groups CUVI and Algarve Without Tolls that much of the EN125 traffic would be using the far safer Via do Infante motorway if it was free to use, as it was planned to be.
The cause of the accident is not yet known but police have interviewed several eye-witnesses and by now will have formed a picture of what happened and who was at fault on this notoriously fast section of road where an Audi was left at the side of the road beyond recognition and a badly damaged Renault in the middle of the highway.
The victim later was named as well respected guitarist Miguel Drago from Castro Marim who was one of founders of the Associação Cultural Fado com História, de Tavira and played in the Pedro Frias Band. The driver of the Renault is from Mora in the district of Evora.
Drago was considered as one of the finest players of the Portugese guitar in Portugal.
Drago's wife, the art historian Rita Manteigas and the driver of a second vehicle are in a serious condition in Faro hospital.
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Picture of Guitarist Miguel Drago who died on Sunday
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck-FdWrz4QM&feature=youtu.be
