Monday, November 26, 2007 Accident kills motorcycle driver, hurts passenger
ONE man died and another was seriously injured in a vehicular accident at the north reclamation area in Mandaue City yesterday morning.
Norvin Dablo, 26, was driving his motorcycle with Davies Sandal, 19, hitching a ride. But police investigators have yet to figure out what could have caused the accident, which involved no other vehicle.
Homicide investigator Protacio Tago Jr. said there were no bloodstains or any other signs that the two hit the island in the middle of the broad highway.
Sandal is being treated at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) for fractures in his ribs and bruises all over his body. Dablo died. His ribs were dislocated and the right side of his trunk badly mangled.
Tago said the police learned of the accident from an unidentified man who called up their police station and said that the two had fallen off the motorcycle.
“But the motorcycle itself showed no damage,” Tago said.
The two were said to be coming from a drinking spree with Dablo’s relatives in Barangay Pajo, Lapu-Lapu City. At 5 a.m., they left to visit a friend at the North Bus Terminal in Subangdaku, Mandaue City. The accident happened in front of the Cebu International Convention Center, apparently while the two were on their way back to Lapu-Lapu.
Sandal could not recall what hit them, but allegedly admitted to investigator Tago that they were drunk when it happened.
Another thing that puzzled the police was the fact that Dablo had covered the license plate of his motorcycle with another plate.
“We can’t get more information from Sandal because his injuries are severe and he could hardly talk,” he said.
Personnel from the traffic division arrived first at the site, but they sought help from the homicide department because they thought Dablo had been stabbed.
“It was not a stab wound,” said Tago. “Right now, only Sandal can tell us what really happened because only the two of them were there.” (AIV)
