By Glazyl Y. Masculino
BACOLOD City – Two persons, including a child, were killed in separate road accidents here and in Negros Occidental, hours before Christmas Day.
In Bacolod, a motorcycle rider died after he was run over by a dump truck along Araneta Avenue in Barangay Tangub around 4 a.m. last Sunday.
Police identified the victim as Jessie Celedonio, 29, of Barangay Pahanocoy here.
Captain Melvin Mercado, head of Police Station 8, said the victim was tailing a truck when he overtook the latter.
He tried to return to his lane when he saw a water tank from afar, Mercado said.
But it was too late, as he was run over by the truck.
Mercado said that both parties have reached a settlement.
Later that night, an eight-year-old boy died after he was hit by an ambulance along Matagoy, Rizal Highway, Barangay Rizal, Silay City, around 8 p.m.
Police withheld the name of the minor-victim.
According to the police, the victim allegedly suddenly crossed the road when an ambulance that was carrying a critical patient passed by the area on its way here from Teresita Jalandoni Provincial Hospital in the city.
The 42-year-old ambulance driver voluntarily surrendered to the police after transporting his critical patient to another hospital here, according to the police.
The victim passed away in a private hospital here the following day, around 11 a.m.
Police said that both parties have met for an amicable settlement.
