This young family of three including a two-year-old boy has been killed in a fireball caused when a lorry ploughed into a motorway toll booth.

The accident took place at a toll booth on the BR-050 motorway in the municipality Campo Alegre de Goias in the Brazilian state of Goias on 29th March.

According to the Federal Highway Police (PRF), the family left the capital Brasilia for Coromandel in the state of Minas Gerais when their car was hit by the out-of-control lorry driver.