Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 5 Presiding Judge Douglas Marigomen sustained head and leg injuries after the car he was riding hit a concrete fence in barangay Gun-ob, Lapu-Lapu City, yesterday morning.
His driver, Renan Dumlos, sustained a cut in his left eyebrow and complained of chest and body pains.
They were on their way to Cebu City from barangay Suba-Basbas in Lapu-lapu when they met an accident.
Dumlos told the police he tried to evade something but he lost control of the Kia sedan and hit a fence.
Marigomen who was seated in the front seat hit his head on the windshield upon impact. The car was severely damaged.
PO1 Cesar Gabule, traffic investigator of Lapu-Lapu City Police Office, said it was possible that Dumlos was driving too fast to maneuver the car away from the obstruction he saw.
Paramedics brought the two accident victims to the Lapu-Lapu City Hospital. The judge and his driver were later transferred to Cebu Doctors’ Hospital in Cebu City.
Both underwent X-ray and CT scan examinations. They remained under observation in the hospital./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA