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LIMAY, Bataan: Four persons died while 15 others were injured after
an oil tanker hit a car, a passenger minibus, a motorcycle and
knocked down a waiting shed in Lamao, Limay, Bataan Thursday
afternoon.
Bus dispatcher Rolly Santiago of Mariveles and
Eustaquio Espinosa, oil tanker driver from Limay, were pronounced
dead on arrival at the nearby Department of National Defense (DND)
Arsenal Hospital in Lamao. Bus conductor Jennifer Bonares of
Mariveles and another bus dispatcher Pablo Agustin of Pilar, Bataan
died while being treated at the Bataan General Hospital (BGH) in
Balanga City.
Pio Cairap, Records section chief of the DND
Hospital, said 25 victims were rushed to their hospital but others
were soon transferred to other medical centers. Only two victims,
Rafael Mendoza and Bienvenido Espiritu remained confined at the
arsenal hospital.
A check with hospitals showed that aside from
the two at the DND hospital, six were confined at the BGH, and one
each at the Bataan Doctors Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital, both in
Balanga City. Five others were treated at the BGH but were recorded
as outpatient.
Confined at the BGH were Jose Garcia, Francisco
Doflon, Mario Amora, James Paulo, Eliza Alayon and Ryan Aboreta,
11-year old boy of Batangas Dos, Mariveles, who sustained head and
other body injuries. The boy was transferred in the evening at a San
Fernando hospital in Pampanga.
Still confined are Elenita Sotto of Batangas
Dos, Mariveles, at the Bataan Doctors Hospital and 14-year old high
school student Mary Rose Violago of Mariveles; both passengers of
the minibus.
Dr. Romeo Alcantara, attending physician at the
BGH, said victims Agustin and Bonares died of severe head injuries
but he recommended an autopsy to determine real cause of death.
Senior Police Officer 1 Melchor Asebias, Limay
police investigator, said the oil tanker driven by Espinosa was
traveling at the Bataan superhighway towards Mariveles at about 2:30
p.m. when it hit a red car coming out from the road of the
government arsenal.
After hitting the car, the driver apparently
lost control of his vehicle and bumped a minibus at the waiting shed
and hit a parked motorcycle. The giant tanker destroyed the concrete
waiting shed entirely with its roof blown off.
-- Ernie B. Esconde
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