Road crash: Tricycle collides with truck. (File photo by INQUIRER SOUTHERN LUZON/DELFIN MALLARI JR.)
LEGAZPI CITY — At least two were killed in a vehicular accident in Daraga town in Albay on Thursday.
Senior Inspector Maria Louisa Calubaquib, information officer of Bicol police, said in a report, that Edward de la Cruz, 28, driver, and a passenger named Bienvenido Lumberio of Barangay Binanuahan, Legazpi City, died after their tricycle accidentally collided with a truck driven by Bernabe Abayane, a resident of Hinabangan, Samar, at 2:40 p.m. in Barangay (village) Busay.
Another passenger of the tricycle identified as Tess Imperial, 33, of Barangay Bogtong, Legazpi City, was injured and brought to Bicol Regional Training and Teaching Hospital.
Based on the investigation, the tricycle entered into the lane of the truck which was heading in the opposite direction and that resulted in a head-on collision.
Abayane is now in the custody of the Daraga Municipal Police Station. SFM