The EN 125 again has been the site of a fatal car crash leaving one dead at the scene and one seriosuly injured.
The road was blocked off after the accident that happened at 1.20pm today, Friday May 15.
The driver of an Opel Zafira, who was injured, lost control of his car and crashed into a Citroën C-Elyse. The collision was so violent that the Citroën was shoved onto one of the roadside barrier.
José Palma, 47, from Vila Nova de Gaia but resident in Quarteira was already motioneless when the INEM medics arrived and was declared dead at the scene.The badly injured victim was rushed to Faro hospital.
Anti-tolls pressure group CUVI stated in April that “in the past three years 100 people have died on the EN125 and there have been many hundreds injured in the Algarve in thousands of accidents with an average of 20 traffic accidents a day and 600 accidents per month."
In mid-April the well respected Algarve musician Miguel Drago was killed in a collision near Guia and at the end of the month a bus driver died after leaving the road and crashing into a house next to the Guia 'chicken roundabout.'
Certainly the EN125 is far busier with traffic than ever it was before the tolls were introduced in the Via do Infante motorway three years ago but this can not take the entire blame for the depressing accident rate on the EN125.
Poor driving skills, alcohol intake and speeding are the causes of the vast majority of accidents on Portugal's roads and for as long as journeys are seen as a opportunity for male self-expression without regard for the safety of others, the death rate will continue, often claiming innocent victims as collateral damage.
