Road crashes leave 3 dead, 3 hurt
THREE persons were killed and three others were injured including an ambulance driver in three separate road accidents in Cebu during the weekend.
A 16-year-old boy riding a motorcycle died after he was thrown from his motorcycle. The motorbike slammed into a steel barrier fence in barangay Flores, Catmon town, northern Cebu last Saturday dawn.
Christian Roble of Sogod town, northern Cebu, suffered a gash on his neck. He died on the way to the Juan Dosado Memorial Hospital in Sogod.
Roble was heading back to Sogod after driving his girlfriend to her home in barangay Catmon Daan, Catmon town when the accident occurred about 4 a.m.
Roble’s black Honda motorcycle with plate no. 5470-IQ slammed into a steel barrier at the roadside.
Robel was thrown off his motorcycle about 100 meters away.
The gash on his neck may have been caused by the impact on the fence, said PO1 Raymund Bacordo of the Catmon police in a phone interview.
On Saturday evening in Dumanjug town southern Cebu, two motorcycles collided at an intersection leaving two men dead and two others injured.
Police said Melvin Denopol and Melchor Escoba died on the way to the hospital.
Justine Casag, 22, was driving his Rusi motorcycle with plate no. 4219-YE with two companions, Abdol Villagonzalo, 17, and Melchor Escoba, as his backriders.
When the three men reached the road intersection in barangay Liong past 7 p.m., they collided with a blue Honda Dream motorcycle with plate no. 4736-GE driven by Denopol.
Denopol was heading to barangay Lawaan.
The four men were thrown on the pavement.
They were all brought to the Barili District Hospital but only Casag and Villagonzalo survived.
They were later transferred to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center for treatment.
Yesterday noon, in Carmen town in northern Cebu, a 10-wheeler truck crashed head on with an ambulance that was transporting a nine-month-old boy patient to a Cebu City hospital from Daanbantayan town.
The child and his mother were not injured.
The ambulance driver, Rolando Seville Jr., 44, of barangay Poblacion, Daanbantayan, northern Cebu, suffered a broken rib.
His helper Roberto Gulfan, 42, had a gash on his forehead.
Both were brought to the Danao Provincial Hospital but were later transferred to a Cebu City hospital.
The truck driver, Jersan Hortelano, was not injured.
He surrendered to the police after the accident.
Investigation showed that the truck driver was giving the truck a road test when it overtook another truck heading north.
At that point, the truck collided with the ambulance which was on its way to Cebu City at 11:45 a.m.
Hortelano, a resident of Tabogon town, northern Cebu, was detained at the Carmen police station pending the filing of charges of reckless imprudence resulting to physical injuries and damage to property.
His truck is owned by y Diana Jenny Yongco of Zamboanga del Sur.
