On 19 January 2011, Shaolin was seriously injured in a traffic accident when his car collided with a truck in
Campina Grande on the highway
BR-230. Until May, he remained in a coma in
intensive care, and then left the hospital to go home, although he had not recovered from his injuries. In September 2012, he began communicating again using movements of his
eyelid helped by a machine. ==Family==