The night before the expanded coverage of the 60-kph speed limit took effect on Commonwealth Avenue, the Quezon City road notoriously dubbed the “killer highway” claimed one more life.
At least eight people were injured on Monday when a passenger bus was said to have lost its brakes and plowed through 10 vehicles in Quezon City along Commonwealth Avenue, dubbed the “killer highway,” a rescue team of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said Tuesday.
Thirty-four people were hurt when two passenger buses figured in an accident in the middle of a heavy downpour in Quezon City on Tuesday night.
(The author is the widower of veteran journalist and UP professor Lourdes Chit Estella-Simbulan who died on May 13 and was cremated on May 17. Her urn will be brought to San Agustin Church in Intramuros today, June 21, the 40th day after her death.) You were snatched from us “as swift as the wind” [...]
In response to a call made by Quezon City councilors, an official of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said Sunday that the agency had been finding ways since the start of the year to make Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City safer for both motorists and pedestrians. In a radio interview, MMDA Assistant General Manager [...]
Quezon City councilors are urging the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to address the unabated road accidents along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City. The highway, already infamous for high accident rates, has been the subject of increased monitoring after a taxi-bus collision killed veteran journalist and UP professor Chit Estella on May 13. In a [...]
The taxi driver who ferried the late journalist Chit Estella on the night she was killed is now also facing the same charges as the driver of the bus which rammed the taxi. The Quezon City Police District has filed criminal complaints against taxi driver Vito Jagunos as well as bus driver Victor Ancheta of [...]
A paint analysis conducted on the wrecked taxi cab taken by the late journalist and university professor Lourdes “Chit” Simbulan confirmed that another bus hit the cab before the bus driven by Daniel Espinosa rammed into it. Superintendent Arnold Santiago, head of the Quezon City Police District Traffic Enforcement Unit, said the paint analysis was [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Ten people have been injured in another accident on Quezon City’s Commonwealth Avenue, dubbed the “killer highway” because of the frequent occurrence of mishaps on the thoroughfare, resulting in several deaths. At 5:20 a.m. Tuesday, a packed passenger jeepney slammed into the back of a van in front of the UP-Ayala Land TechnoHub, the [...]
MANILA, Philippines—There was a bus “race” on the night that journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan was killed in a horrific crash, but the driver of the bus that rammed Simbulan’s taxi claimed two other buses were doing the racing. The lawyer of bus driver Daniel Espinosa quoted his client in a press conference at the Quezon [...]
DAVAO CITY—“It was not just me.” With those words, bus driver Daniel Espinosa emerged from six days in hiding and surrendered to Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte before midnight on Thursday, insisting he was not the only one involved in the road collision that led to the death of journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan in [...]
MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE 2) Bus driver Daniel Espinosa has chosen to place himself under the protection and security of the Quezon City Police District a day after he surrendered to authorities. In a press conference past midnight Saturday, QCPD director Chief Superintendent George Regis said they were still looking for a comfortable temporary living quarters for [...]
DAVAO CITY—(UPDATE 2) Daniel Espinosa, the driver of the bus involved in the collision that killed veteran journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan in Quezon City, insisted he was not the only one to blame for the accident. “It was not just me,” said Espinosa, driver of the Universal Guiding Star bus that hit Simbulan’s cab on [...]
