BAGUIO CITY—Seventeen people were hurt in two successive accidents on the road to the Asin Hot Springs of Benguet’s Tuba town on Saturday, the Cordillera police said.
At 9:15 a.m., a public utility jeepney carrying 13 passengers malfunctioned as it descended Km. 12 in Sitio Lasong, Tadiangan village, prompting its driver Jake Cenon Ponce to direct his vehicle toward a mountain slope.
The jeepney (with plate number AYL-189) fell on its side due to the impact. Its passengers were treated at the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC).
Ponce said his brakes failed.
At 9:30 a.m., the brakes of a Toyota Hi-ace van (with plate numbers VCF-732) driven by Julius Relano Reforma also malfunctioned as it descended Km. 13 in Sitio Lasong.
The van hit a Mitsubishi Pajero (with plate numbers XEU-454) driven by Samuel Serano Fontanilla.
BGHMC doctors are treating Fontanilla’s passengers: 2-year-old Allijah Samantha Cueto Co, Raymund Baltazar Jiminez, Ana Prescila Manalo Cueto, and Camille Abad Barca. IDL
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