Carnival in Brazil: road traffic accidents in Salvador 2019-2020
During the six main Carnival days in Brazil in 2020, the city of Salvador registered a significant decline in the number of road traffic accidents and victims, when compared to the figures of the previous year. That year, there were 76 car accidents in the capital of Bahia, nearly half the figure reported a year earlier. Meanwhile, accidents resulted in 55 people injured and two deaths.