A woman’s night out with friends nearly ended in tragedy when she was sideswiped by a speeding motorcyclist in Brazil.
Dramatic video showed Thamiris Ferreira sitting at a street-side table outside of a wine bar in Sapopemba, in the state of São Paulo, when the biker drove by and clipped her.
The impact sent Ferreira flying out of her seat and sliding along the street as he startled friends looked on. The motorcyclist crashed to the ground.
Ferreria miraculously escaped with only bruises to her arms, legs, hips and back.
‘I just remember that I was sitting down talking, handling a bottle and bag, and I felt the impact,’ Ferreira told Brazilian news outlet G1.
‘You can see from the video how violent it was. I was lucky that I didn’t break anything.’
In a separate interview with SBT television, the manicurist revealed that the motorcyclist, who lives in the area, had been riding his bike at a high speed and passed by several times prior to the January 5 crash.
Ferreira said she her injuries might have been much worse if not for her rolling into another motorcycle parked nearby.
A speeding biker (top left) sped by a table outside of a wine bar and clipped Thamiris Ferreira (right) in São Paulo, Brazil
Ferreria miraculously escaped with only bruises to her arms, legs, hips and back.
The impact of the crash sent Ferreira flying into another motorcycle parked nearby
‘What saved me was that I hit the motorcycle,’ she said. ‘Otherwise, I could have hit another car that was on the street. And then I could have hit my head or suffered a fracture.’
The crash took place a day after a 55-year-old man was killed by a motorcyclist in Sapopemba. The victim’s six-year-old grandson was injured.
Department of Traffic data showed that the state of São Paulo registered 5,594 traffic accident fatalities between January and November 2024.
The report said that 2,390 motorcyclists died in accidents during the same period in the state, totaling more than 40 percent of traffic deaths in the first 11 months of last year.
Data also showed that 1,273 pedestrians were run over during the same period.
