On the way from Guaçui to Guarapari I try to avoid BR-101 without too much detours. I have found a route I like, but I have to follow BR-101 for a short while.

Yesterday, shortly after entering BR-101 between Cachoeira and Rio Novo, traffic stopped promtly and I could see emergency flashes far up ahead. Shortly after I stopped a HGV almost rammed me in the rear, so I decided to zig-zag a little up the file of stopped trucks to get further from the end of the line. Shortly after I started ahead tree other trucks almost collided with that trucks in the rear.

After waiting some time, a slow movement started on the queue (without any traffic coming against us, and after a few minutes we passed the accident site. A car had been totally crushed by an oncoming truck, and there was without doubt deaths. The queue for the other direction was completely halted, and after passing that we started to signal to oncoming cars for them to slow down in time not to make matters worse. A little after oncoming cars signaled us as well, so we thought it might be an accident further ahead, so when we passed an intersection leading to an alternative route we left BR-101, the result is one track from Rio Novo to Marataiz.