Thursday, February 3, 2011

4 hurt in another Maharlika Highway accident

LUCENA CITY, Philippines — Four people were injured when a bus fell into an open canal beside the Maharlika Highway in Pagbilao, Quezon, shortly after midnight Wednesday, police said.

Police Officer 2 Darwin Balisalisa, Pagbilao police investigator, said that while a Manila-bound Super Lines bus from Libmanan, Camarines Sur, was traversing the zigzag diversion road in Barangay (village) Silangang Malicboy, it lost its brakes and bumped another passenger bus, Mark Eve’s Transit, which was ahead of it.

After the collision, the Super Line bus went straight into the open canal, causing injuries to three passengers—Jonie Lebrora, Alvin Recto, and Rosario Recto— police said.

The driver of the other bus, Efren Casimiro, also suffered injuries in different parts of the body. The four wounded were rushed to Jane County Hospital.

The driver of the Super Lines bus, Ernie Pedregosa, is detained at the Pagbilao town jail, police said.

Last Monday, 39 people were also injured after a Manila-bound bus fell into a 20-foot-deep ravine along the zigzag road also in the same village. (report from Delfin Mallari Jr., Inquirer Southern Luzon)