10 hurt in NoCot highway mishap
Local News • 12:30 PM Mon May 27, 2019
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By:
Edwin O. Fernandez
Contributed photo of the ill fated Serbisyong Totoo multicab after the highway crash
KIDAPAWAN CITY – Nine persons were hurt when a top-down multi-carry vehicle plunged into a ravine in Antipas, North Cotabato Sunday.
All the nine passengers and the driver of the green multi-cab, including the driver, miraculously survived the 9 a.m. vehicular crash in Barangay Pontevedra, according to Capt. Bernard Abarquez, Antipas municipal police chief.
He named the survivors as Virgilio Amandoron; Heber Caahao, 59; Mary Luiz Digal, 35; Glenda Dejesica, 39; Flordeliza Pacultan; Aser Guanzon, 48; Catherine Cañete, 46; Flordeliza Pacultad and Jolly Beth Dayot, all residents of Barangay Gambodes, Arakan, North Cotabato.
The cab was driven by Ronald Dayot who claimed the vehicle’s brake system malfunctioned while he was negotiating a downward portion of the national highway.
The vehicle hit the highway barrier before plunging into a 20 foot ravine.
All the victims sustained minor injuries in the head and body.