Teacher dead in Quezon road accident

LUCENA CITY –– A teacher died when she fell off a motorcycle traveling the ecotourism road in Sariaya town in Quezon province on Thursday night, police said Friday.

Sariaya police reported that Julia Jimenez, 25, was on a motorcycle with Alvin Jimenez, 28, traversing the ecotourism road in Barangay Talaan Aplaya around 12:30 p.m.

The report said the Lucena-bound motorcycle rider tried to evade collision with an incoming mini-tanker with a black tractor head which swerved and occupied the opposite lane.

But during the maneuver, the victim fell off the motorcycle and was subsequently ran over by the other vehicle that hurriedly escaped after the incident.

The victim died on the spot.

Police immediately issued a flash alarm for the arrest of the still-unidentified hit-and-run driver./lzb