A NEWLYWED bride survived a motorway crash with her husband – only to be killed moments later when a lorry ploughed into them as they climbed from their wrecked car.
Samara Prado Martins, 24, an architect who married just a month ago, died at the scene after the horror double smash on a Brazilian highway.
Samara and her husband Thiago Oliveira Martins were travelling back from the beach when their car rolled over onto the hard shoulder near Ponta Grossa, in the southern state of Paraná, at around 7.50am last Monday.
Federal Highway Police said the couple managed to pull themselves out of the overturned vehicle.
But seconds later, they were struck by a lorry travelling along the carriageway.
Samara was killed instantly.
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Thiago was left critically injured and was airlifted while intubated to a hospital in Ponta Grossa, where he remains in intensive care.
Relatives said the newlyweds were alone in their car at the time of the crash.
Samara’s parents, brother and sister-in-law were travelling in another vehicle behind them and turned back after realising there had been an accident.
The occupants of the lorry were not injured.
Police are investigating the cause of the initial rollover.
Samara, originally from Dourados in Mato Grosso do Sul, had recently graduated in architecture and was working at a local firm.
Friends and colleagues have since flooded social media with tributes and messages of support for Thiago.
Her body was flown to Dourados, where she will be laid to rest.
It comes after a groom and his three nieces were killed when a private helicopter crashed into a canyon just hours before his wedding.
David McCarty, 59, was flying members of his family in his MD 369FF helicopter through Telegraph Canyon near Superior, Arizona, when disaster struck.
McCarty and his nieces Rachel, 23, and Faith, 21, along with their cousin Katelyn Heideman, 22, all died in the crash.
The helicopter hit a recreational slackline stretched across the mountains at around 11am, causing the aircraft to plunge to the bottom of the canyon.
Rescue teams had to trek on foot to reach the remote crash site, arriving at the wreckage at about 5pm.
Police said all four victims were later pronounced dead that evening.