4 dead, 2 hurt in road crash after buying medicines for sick father

NAGA CITY, Philippines—Four persons, including two children, were killed while two others were injured after the driver of the Toyota Hilux they were riding lost control of the vehicle in Vinzons, Camarines Norte, early Wednesday.

Police Officer 3 Gil Dumapyas, investigating officer of the Vinzons Municipal Police Office, said the vehicle swerved and struck a tree before it hit a concrete wall of the provincial motor pool along the Maharlika Highway in Barangay (village) Sto. Domingo, Vinzons at 12:15 a.m.

He said initial investigation showed the road was slippery when the accident happened.

Four of the six persons on board the vehicle were dead on arrival in the hospital. They were identified as Jhed Marvin de Guzman, 12; Matthew de Leon, 13; Riza Antonette Asansa, 25, a nurse; and a still unidentified male victim.

Injured were the driver of the vehicle, Kevin Villamonte, 25, and Rosalyn Tuason, 25, a nurse.

Dumapyas said the group of Villamonte was headed home to Labo town after buying medicines for Villamonte’s ailing father in the capital town of Daet, around 35 kilometers away, when the accident happened.

Police said the victims were relatives of Villamonte except for the two nurses who were hired to care for Villamonte’s father.

Villamonte was taken to a hospital in Daet and has been set to be transferred to the Bicol Medical Center in Naga City for further treatment for his head injury while Tuason was released after getting treatment for minor injuries, Dumapyas said.