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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Police chief Alberto Roque Peres said the couple went to the area popular with hang gliders to \u201cmake out\u201d after the party, parking their vehicle above a ravine.<\/p>\n As they moved inside the vehicle, it \u201crolled\u201d over the edge, throwing the victims from the car.<\/p>\n It is believed the vehicle initially fell just under 100m, before plunging a further 300m.<\/p>\n Firefighters had to hike down the ravine to recover the bodies, which were reportedly naked.<\/p>\n Police say there is no initial evidence of involvement by other individuals but the findings of a forensic report is still to be finalised.<\/p>\n \u201cI saw the car\u2019s engine very far away and the car fell, almost 150 meters from the accident,\u201d witness Tiago Amorim said, the Post reports. \u201cIt was a shocking scene, the car was destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n In Brazil it is illegal to \u201ccommit an obscene act in a public place, or one open to or exposed to the public\u201d.<\/p>\n Ms Ribeiro, a mother of two children from a previous marriage, had worked at a bakery in the city where her mother was the manager.<\/p>\n Mr Cardoso, who worked as a machine operator, leaves behind a four year old son from a previous relationship.<\/p>\n It is understood the pair had been in a relationship for about six months.<\/p>\n Mr Cardoso\u2019s ex and mother of his son has mourned his loss on social media, writing that he was the \u201c love of her life\u201d, CNN Brasil reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A romantic rendezvous has turned fatal for one couple whose vehicle plunged off a cliff while they were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,1720],"class_list":["post-55149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Adriana](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4e13a9c9ee04e31e631b6cdeb914844d3cf2ca4d.jpg\")
Adriana Ribeiro, 42, and her boyfriend Marcone Cardoso, 26. Credit: Unknown\/X<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/326f09d087e3b87a05a00d2acb506acec949169e.jpg\")
The vehicle plunged over a cliff in an area popular with hang gliders. Credit: Unknown\/X<\/p>\n