5 killed in separate road accidents

A man died after he was ran over by a 10-wheeler truck on B. Rodriguez Street, Cebu City yesterday morning, while three men were killed in an accident involving motorcycles in Balamban town.

Another vehicular accident also killed a 40-year-old man in Santander, southern Cebu.

In the Cebu City accident, Jomenil Tungal of Barangay Maguikay, Mandaue City died on the spot when the incident took place at past 9 a.m. yesterday. He was with his live-in partner, Elizabeth Bacalso, when he crossed the busy street and was hit by a truck owned by Atlantic Hardware.

He was taken to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center but died of head injuries. The truck driver is under the custody of the Cebu City Traffic Operation Management (Citom) office as authorities prepare a complaint for reckless imprudence resulting in homicide.

In Balamban, three men who just came from a fiesta died in a head-on collision involving motorcycles in the national highway of barangay Buanoy.

Noriel Tamayo, 20, a resident of sitio Laray, barangay Buanoy and his backrider on the Honda wave, 20-year-old Bryan Quimod of sitio Looc, barangay Buanoy died.

Dixon Lasaga, the driver of the other motorcycle involved, also died. He was from barangay Dumlog, Toledo City and worked at a shipbuilding company.

SPO1 Rolando Navaro said the two motorcycles were traveling from opposite directions when the accident happened at around 3 a.m. Tamayo did not notice Lasaga making a left turn because the place was dark.

Navaro said that Tamayo and Quimod were drummers of a tribal group that performed the night before the accident.

In a separate incident, a 40-year-old man who was reportedly drunk died after his motorcycle rammed the railings in barangay Lilo-an, Santander Thursday afternoon. /CORRESPONDENTS CHITO O. ARAGON AND CHRISTINE EMILY PANTALEON