A cyclist was hit and killed by an out-of-control vehicle on the notorious EN125 near Algarve shopping in Guia yesterday morning, October 31st.
The 43-year-old local man was declared dead at the scene and police are piecing together why the Honda CRV swerved across the road and struck the cyclist head on, throwing him several metres through the air.
The INEM ambulance service responded but nothing could be done and the victim was declared dead at the crash site.
Another accident occurred in Tavira at lunchtime yesterday when a 78-year-old man was hit by a car while crossing the road. He was transported to Faro hospital with serious chest, leg and abdominal injuries. The local police are investigating this accident as well.
Portugal has more than five thousand pedestrian accidents per year accounting for 25% of those who died in road accidents in 2015.
The main cause of such accidents in Portugal is speeding but the percentage of drunk drivers involved in accidents with pedestrians is reducing.
A woman driving a black car that ran over your editor's dog on the zebra crossing in front of Olhão's twin markets is hoped already to be suffering crippling chest pains and headaches, the start of a twenty year period of bad luck and severe marital disharmony.
The accident, from which the driver drove off at top speed, left Bailey the Flying Dog in severe shock and pain from a broken pelvis but he is recovering well and regaining his position of one of Olhão's best loved and most endearing animals.
