Where is the investigation into the death of Sara Carreira, who died in December 2020? According to information from Novagente.pt, justice rendered its indictment on December 6, 2021. No less than four people were indicted including Ivo Lucas, the boyfriend of the late young woman, daughter of singer Tony Carreira.
On December 5, 2020, Sara Carriera was killed in a car accident on the A1 motorway, between Santarém and Cartaxo, around 7 p.m. The prosecution, after a long investigation several times delayed and whose conclusions had been postponed for further laboratory analysis, finally indicted four people: Ivo Lucas, Cristina Branco, Paulo Neves and Tiago Pacheco. The boyfriend of the deceased is notably accused of negligent homicide (manslaughter in French law). Justice also accuses him of two traffic violations. He faces three years in prison.
Fado singer Cristina Branco, whose vehicle was also involved in the incident, received the same charges; she would not have installed a safety stud or sign on the road when she had left her car after a collision with the vehicle in front of her, increasing the danger to oncoming cars. As for Paulo Neves, justice accuses him of three traffic violations – of three different degrees – while Tiago Pacheco is accused of two offenses.
As a reminder, Ivo Lucas – then driving a Range Rover – is accused of having driven in excess of speed at around 140 km / h, by difficult weather conditions since it was raining and it was pitch dark. . The young man’s vehicle, in which Sara Carreira was, then crashed into Cristina Branco’s Volvo, which itself had already collided with Paulo Neves’ car, which was driving too slowly, at around 30km / h . The site of Atelevisao.com had previously explained that it had a blood alcohol level of 1.35 g / l, more than double the amount authorized by law. Finally, the last indicted, Tiago Pacheco, is accused of not having slowed down when he had observed the accident in progress.
Sara Carreira was buried in Stealth on December 8, 2020 in a ceremony at the Basilica of Estrela in Lisbon before resting in the Prazeres cemetery.
Judgment of the case is still pending.