STREET JUSTICE AFTER DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT IN BRAZIL
From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Queens Injury Lawyer)
This one from way out of town.
Brazilian housewife Pamela de Souza Costa celebrated her 24th birthday on Friday April 16, 2010 by getting drunk. All good, until she decided to drive home and had an accident.
Costa lost control of her car and struck Silmara Rodrigues and her 8 year-old daughter, Raisa, crushing them into a wall. Raisa was killed; Silmara lost her unborn child and suffered a crushed and fractured leg, which may have to be amputated.
This all took place in the town of Macae, 160km northeast of Rio de Janeiro.
After the impact and accident Costa tried to drive away, struck a pole, and was chased down by a horde of angry locals. They surrounded her and pulled her from her vehicle. One person shot Costa five times and fled the scene.
Costa also in the neighborhood; she was a mother of three. She was buried on Saturday.
