Newlywed architect, 24, survives crash but is hit and killed by lorry a moment later
A newly married architect has died after initially surviving a car crash with her husband only to be struck by a lorry moments later as they were getting out of their overturned vehicle.
Samara Prado Martins, 24, an architect who had got married a month earlier and was travelling with her husband when the double crash happened, in the city of Ponta Grossa, in the Brazilian state of Parana, on December 29, died at the scene.
Federal Highway Police said the car in which the couple were travelling rolled over on the shoulder of the BR-376 highway.
The couple managed to get out of the vehicle after the rollover, but they were then hit by the lorry travelling along the carriageway shortly afterwards.
Samara died at the scene of the crash. Her husband, Thiago Oliveira Martins, was rescued in a serious condition and was airlifted while intubated to a hospital in Ponta Grossa.
He remains hospitalised and is continuing to receive treatment.
Relatives said the couple had been returning from the beach and were alone in their car when the crash happened.
They said Samara's parents, brother, and sister-in-law were travelling in another vehicle and turned back after realising there had been an accident.
The occupants of the lorry were not injured. The circumstances of the initial rollover are continuing to be investigated by police.
Samara's body was flown to the city of Dourados, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, where she will be laid to rest.
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