Saturday, November 17, 2007
10-wheeler plows into house
A WAYWARD 10-wheeler truck skidded off the highway in Barangay Linao, Talisay City and smashed into a residential house of a ranking school official last Thursday.
The crash wrecked the old ancestral home of Patricia Gella, an education supervisor in Filipino of the Talisay City Schools Division.
Moments before this, the Fuzo cargo truck (GVZ-603), loaded with bags of animal feeds, bumped the rear of a gasoline tanker and hit the side of a Cebu City-bound multicab before it rammed into the house.
The multicab driver and his six passengers, including a month-old baby, got injured and were rushed to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City.
Gella, who had to rush home from her office in Barangay Poblacion, heaved a sigh of relief that her husband Generato, 59, and grandson Leraine, 10, were not directly hit by the fast-moving truck driven by Lorenzo Rio, 43, of San Jose, Oriental Negros.
Special child
Leraine, a special child, got only minor bruises. He was in the sala when the truck of the Matiao Transport Service, plowed into the house, Gella said.
The truck also missed Generato, who was sipping coffee outside the house gate.
Also, Gella’s 24-year-old son Linelle, was not around when the accident happened at 3:45 p.m.
The truck first broke through the concrete fence, slammed into the house and finally screeched to a halt in Linelle’s room, Gella said.
Appliances
“I thank God for sparing my husband and grandson. But all my house appliances are gone,” Gella said.
Since the house was in total wreck, Gella said they will temporarily rent a house. The truck company reportedly assured to shoulder the rental fee and to compensate the damaged properties.
Investigation showed that the southbound cargo truck bumped the rear of a Fuzo gasoline tanker (GVS-180) after the former lost its brakes.
This reportedly forced Rio, the truck driver, to swerve to the opposite lane. But he hit instead the left side of a passenger multicab driven by Juan Langamin, 55, said PO3 Amelito Hornales, Talisay PNP traffic investigator.
The collision, he said, caused the multicab to turn upside down, injuring passengers Emilio Adlawan, 60; Jovelyn Lascuña, 28; Elizabeth Barinque, 43, Michelle Maglente, 22; Gretchen Cañeda, 15; and Jelayza Villanueva, a month-old infant.
Hornales said Rio will be charged with reckless imprudence resulting in multiple injuries and damaged properties. (GC)
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