The bus was carrying evangelical Christians and the accident occurred when the driver failed to negotiate a curve and lost control on a bend. Rescue operations are on as rescue teams are searching for bodies at the crash site in a mountainous area of Santa Catarina state.
The bus was believed to be on its way to a religious event in Parana state when it crashed six miles from the city of Joinville.
As per witnesses, the driver appeared to have lost control, and the police have said that preliminary indications were of brake failure. The weather and road conditions cannot be blamed because both were good at the time of the crash. The dead bodies recovered so far include eight children, 24 women and 14 men while ten people have sustained severe injuries and have been shifted to hospitals.
Incidentally, nearly 43,000 Brazilians are killed every year in road accidents and, for the decade from 2002-2012, the accident rate surged by over 24%. It seems with the economy growing and the population topping 200 million, nearly 10,000 new cars are added daily to Brazil's roads.
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