Driver trapped for 4 hours
By Roberto C. Dejon
ORMOC CITY – Local rescue group took more than 4 hours to get a bus driver who was trapped in his driver’s seat after the passenger bus he was driving bumped into a concrete wall.
PCP1 chief P/CInsp. Neil Montaño, identified the victim as Jerry Subico, driver Pepe Bus line bearing plate number TYU-173 with body number NA 09-9 of Brgy. Tigbuan, Leyte, Leyte.
Subico was pinned to the driver’s seat when it rammed into a concrete wall at the junction of Lilia Ave. and along F.Ablen Street on its way to the city proper.
Local rescuers used acetylene to cut bars that trapped the driver, who was brought to a local hospital four hours after the accident.
The bus with 46 passengers including the driver and the conductor was on its way to San Isidro, Leyte where most of its passengers came from Manila.
It was learned that it made a side strip to Ormoc when one of its passengers was bound to the city.
Police investigation discloses that while the bus was traversing the national highway in Brgy. Cogon, the driver failed to maneuver into the junction of the corner of F. Ablen and Lilia Ave on its way to the city proper. Instead of turning to the junction, the driver drove straight bumping into a wall which was a dead end.
10 of the passengers were wounded when the bus bumped into the wall and were brought to the Ormoc District Hospital for medical treatment. They were Gabriela Misa, of San Isidro, Leyte, Winjie Biajedor, from Villaba, Leyte, Luisita Rivera, of Oriental Mindoro, Erwin Fuentez, of Villaba, Merwin Romero, San Isidro, Leyte, Adelyn Lucion, San Isidro, Leyte, Raymundo Lanse, Villaba, Leyte, Emelia Sabornido, Villaba, Leyte, Louise Raymundo, Villaba, Leyte, and Raquel Cabadsan, from Tabango, Leyte.
Of the 10, Lucion, a 7-months pregnant got the biggest wound when her mouth hit the back board of the seat in front of her pulling some of her front teeth.
No casualty was reported in the incident that’s why all the injured passengers were immediately released from the hospital.
The driver with broken knee is now in safe condition at the OSPA hospital.
