TWO motorcycle riders were killed in vehicular accidents, one of which involving a police patrol car, in cities of San Carlos and Sagay, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, September 28.
Killed were Roy Valiente, 35, of East Avenue Street in Escalante City, and Kayne Ray Taleda, 22, of Barangay Paraiso in Sagay City, police records showed.
Investigation showed that at about 1 p.m., the mobile police patrol driven by John Mil Kenn Nieves, 37, the locality’s casual employee, tried to overtake a tricycle along the national highway of Hacienda Socorro at Barangay Punao.
“He (Nieves) failed to notice the approaching motorcycle of the victim because of the bad weather thus, the collision occurred,” San Carlos City Police Station chief Lt. Col. Jesus Mesahon said, adding that the impact caused the patrol vehicle to fall into the roadside canal.
Mesahon explained that the patrol car is being driven by Nieves, a resident of Barangay Punao, because the vehicle was not yet properly turned over by the city government to the local police.
He said that the two policemen on board the vehicle on their way back to the station after conducting visibility patrol were unhurt.
Mesahon noted that they are still working on the settlement agreement between Nieves and the family of Valiente.
Valiente died while being treated at the San Carlos City Hospital.
Meanwhile, in Sagay, Taleda was heading south of the national highway of Barangay Old Sagay and tailing the motorcycle of John Danly Baraga, of the city’s Barangay Taba-ao, when they both made an overtake in a tractor truck at about 6 p.m.
Baraga, however, suddenly stopped when he saw a parked tricycle ahead causing Taleda to smash into the rear portion of his vehicle, investigation showed.
“The impact caused Taleda and his backrider Junies Caspe, 22, of the city’s Barangay Bulanon to fall into the pavement,” Executive Master Sergeant Elmer Baloco said.
Baloco, who is the Chief Executive Senior Police Officer of Sagay City Police, said that while on the ground, the tractor truck driven by Fernando Laspino, 47, of Barangay Lamak in Pinamongahan town in Cebu province, ran over Taleda.
Taleda and Caspe were both rushed to the Lopez District Farmers Foundation Hospital where the former died upon arrival.
It is not yet known whether a settlement will take place between Taleda and Laspino.*