4 dead in Zamboanga City highway accident
TIMRA Reports • 15:15 PM Tue Oct 10, 2023
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John Felix Unson
The ill-fated truck carrying livestock to be delivered supposedly to a buyer in Zamboanga City.
COTABATO CITY - Four laborers died instantly in a highway accident involving two cargo trucks in Barangay Licomo in Zamboanga City on Tuesday morning.
Quoting an initial report from the Zamboanga City Police Office, radio news here on Tuesday identified the fatalities as Roseller Tomotong, Ariel Lipay, Bobong Magat, and a certain Noli, who were together in a truck loaded with some 30 pigs from Zamboanga Del Norte province that they were to deliver to the buyer in Zamboanga City.
The ZCPO said the truck carrying the victims and the livestock they were to sell to a contact, driven by Herbert Arcilla Dela Rosa, hit the rear of another truck maneuvering in reverse out from an intersection in a portion of the highway in Sitio Tigbao in Barangay Licomo.
Dela Rosa’s truck swerved after it rammed the other truck, towards the side of the highway and hit a post of the Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative.
The driver of the smaller truck that figured in the accident, Elowino Molina Lorenzo, was unscathed.
The badly injured Dela Rosa was rushed to a nearby hospital by emergency responders, according to the ZCPO.
Some of the pigs on the cargo deck of Dela Rosa’s truck fell on the concrete pavement and got killed too, the police report that reached media outfits in central Mindanao, said.
