Suzana Leite
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Brasília - During the Christmas holiday in Brazil (between the days of 24 and 26 of December), sixty-five people died and 935 people were injured in traffic accidents. The figures were announced yesterday (27) by the Federal Highway Police. In all, 1,149 accidents occurred throughout the country. According to Inspector Alvarez Simões, Head of the Traffic Inspection Department of the Federal Highway Police, besides the big flow of vehicles on the country's highways during this period, drivers' lack of prudence is one of the major causes of highway accidents.

According to Alvarez Simôes, it is mostly the highways headed for the coast that register an increase in the flow of cars, causing an increase in the number of accidents and deaths.

Translation: David Silberstein