By Glazyl Y. Masculino
BACOLOD City – A 22-year-old woman and her two-year-old son died in a road accident at Barangay Maquiling, Sagay City, Negros Occidental last Tuesday.
Police withheld the names of the victims upon their request.
Police Staff Sergeant Georgen Miranda, investigator of Sagay City Police Station, said the victims were on their way home on board a tricycle driven by the woman’s 26-year-old husband when the accident happened.
Miranda said the tricycle was tailing a passenger jeepney when the latter suddenly stopped to unload a passenger.
The tricycle driver failed to notice the jeepney as it had no brake lights.
“Na alang-alang ang tricycle pundo so nag overtake siya,” Miranda said.
The tricycle reportedly hit the side of the jeepney, causing the woman and her child to be thrown off the tricycle, Miranda said.
The victims then landed on the opposite lane and hit their heads on an approaching vehicle.
Both victims were declared dead on arrival at a hospital.
Miranda said the tricycle driver was unharmed but in trauma. He is confined to a hospital.
“Ok man siya galing indi siya ma istorya, na trauma, na shock pa siguro,” he added.
Miranda said the parties involved had an initial settlement yesterday and the jeepney driver pledged to extend financial assistance to the victims’ family.
