Case was registered at the Itapetininga Police Station (SP) Diogo Del Cistia/g1 The wife of the man who died in a traffic accident on Rodovia Raposo Tavares (SP-270), in Itapetininga (SP), this Tuesday morning (16), was found dead hours after the accident, inside the house where she lived, in the same city. The Civil Police are investigating whether the two deaths are related. The driver died after colliding with a trailer, at kilometer 185 of the highway. According to delegate Luiz Henrique Nunes, from the General Investigations Station (DIG) of Itapetininga, the police contacted his family, who tried to warn his wife about what had happened. However, the woman could not be reached by phone. 📲 Join the g1 Itapetininga e Região channel on WhatsApp "The wife then reports herself missing. This is the first contact that arrives at the Sectional Police Station. At this moment, one of the wife's brothers, realizing that something strange was really happening, manages to enter the couple's house, jumps over the wall and there discovers his sister dead on the bed", explains the police officer. The police are investigating whether the man killed his partner and killed himself. According to the delegate, the couple has a one-year-old son and the suspicion is that the man left the child in the care of his paternal grandmother to commit the crime. The family lived in Vila Asem, in Itapetininga. "The main evidence so far is that he committed femicide, left the child with his mother and then committed suicide. We are working with evidence, and it is important to highlight this. But, at this moment, the investigative line points to femicide followed by the author's suicide", he stated. The accident The car and the trailer collided head-on at kilometer 185 of Rodovia Raposo Tavares (SP-270), in Itapetininga, on Tuesday morning (16). Crash between car and trailer leaves one person dead in Raposo Tavares in Itapetininga In images taken by drivers passing by the scene, it is possible to see that the car was destroyed after the crash. In another record, the trailer involved in the accident appears close to a dirt embankment on the banks of the track. According to the Transport Agency of the State of São Paulo (Artesp), the truck was traveling along the highway when, at the aforementioned km, the car entered the wrong lane. Without time to dodge, the two collided head-on. In a statement to the police, the truck driver stated that he was surprised by the oncoming car. He wasn't hurt. "The truck was pretty damaged. It really caught our attention that here, at the Police Station, the truck driver kept saying that that person had intercepted the path, had entered in front of the truck", comments the police chief. The Civil Police are awaiting the results of reports that should help with the investigation. Accident between a trailer and a car at Raposo Tavares in Itapetininga, on Tuesday morning (16) Reproduction/Artesp Initial plugin text See more news on g1 Itapetininga and Region VIDEOS: watch TV TEM reports