It's very sad that Sandro Luis might not be able to play soccer again, but he and everyone else involved in this accident are very fortunate that the outcome wasn't worse. Also, sorry to here about your friend's grandmother and your classmates Gatofedorento.
Sometimes the problem isn´t driving at 160 km or something like that on the highway (Germany has no speed limit for instance), the biggest accidents, the one´s who kill ppl everyday in Portugal don´t happen in highways most of the time they happen on regular roads or in the so called IP´S(IP5, IP4 etc) and ************ roads like that, for sure the main problem is our mentality and culture as a nation but we can´t forget other situations.
I think that wasn´t Bosingwa car... And by the way it seems they caught what we call here in Portugal as "lençol de água"(i don´t know how to say it in English...) anyone who drives regularly knows what it is, its almost impossible to handle the car when we we are caught in one, especcially if you are driving at 1 am.
Also, another cause of many accidents in Portugal (besides speeding) is when a driver makes a bad attempt at trying to pass the vehicle in front of them and ends up crashing head on with an on-coming vehicle.
the five players are lucky to be alive check the photo and condition of the car http://www.ojogo.pt/21-85/Artigo468535.htm
Sandro luis's career is over . Had to have his right foot amputated. Apparently Bosingwa was the driver. LISBON (AFP) - A Portuguese footballer with a third division club had his right foot amputated following an accident involving a car driven by Porto midfielder Jose Bosingwa. Sandro Luis, 21, was seriously injured in the early hours of Monday when the jeep he was traveling in left the road in northern Portugal and plunged eight metres (26 feet) down an embankment before catching fire. Bosingwa and his three remaining passengers, all of them footballers, were treated in hospital and released. But Luis, who plays for Os Minhocas which is based on Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands, remains in hospital after having surgery Monday to remove his foot, the Record newspaper said Tuesday citing hospital sources. Police said Luis, whose wife is eight months pregnant, was thrown from the vehicle while the others climbed out before it caught fire. The other injured included Boavista's Edu and Nelson Ramos, who received four stitches to his leg, and Jaime Linhares who plays for second division Ovarense Bosingwa was subjected to a breathalyzer test which he passed, police said. A combination of heavy rain and speeding are the likely causes of the accident, they added. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050517/sp_soccer_afp/fblporaccident_050517160004
Well they should drive slower if it's wet out, especially in the north where it's all mountains and turns. I remember going out with my cousin one night in Povoa de Varzim and the guy was doing 80 MPH in between the narrow streets. Just the work shifting gears isn't worth the trouble, not to mention the fact that he couldn't see what was coming beyond the corner and was using his highbeams to signal the other drivers. Sheer madness.