A lumber truck has collided with a bus near the southern town of Descanso in Brazil, killing at least 25 people and injuring 23 others.
Highway police said the accident happened early in the morning when the truck driver lost control on a curve and slammed into the bus, AFP reported.
Police said the bus was carrying nearly 50 people when it was struck by the truck near Descanso, 690 kilometers west of the state capital of Florianopolis, near Brazil's border with Argentina.
The report added that the passengers were all family and friends returning from a bowling tournament.
Brazil has one of the highest rates of car accident fatalities in the Americas with 24.2 killed in crashes per 100,000 members of the population.
Brazil ranks third in the world with the worst road death rate per person, just behind El Salvador and the Dominican Republic. Road accidents claim over 35,000 lives in Brazil each year.
Road conditions in Brazil vary widely with some stretches of modern highways mostly in Sao Paulo.
In other areas, however, the inter-city roads have been widely recognized as among the most dangerous in the world.
This is due to poor driving as well as high rates of crime. Shockingly, some 39,000 are reportedly killed in gunshot violence in Brazil each year.
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