BACOLOD City – Three persons, including a minor, figured in a road crash on McKinley Street in Barangay 4, Silay City, Negros Occidental, a police report showed.
They were the 87-year-old Editha Garcia, the 63-year-old Roberto Garcia and the 13-year-old Jasper Laguitan.
The three are relatives but the police report did not indicate how.
It was around 6:35 a.m. on Friday when the Ford Ranger pickup driven by the 49-year-old Janus Olympo of Talisay City, Negros Occidental crashed against the Fotton pickup that the Garcias and Laguitan were riding, the report stated.
The Garcias and Laguitan sustained injuries and were rushed to the Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital in Silay City for treatment.
But the attending phyisican pronounced Editha “dead on arrival.”
Roberto and Laguitan, meanwhile, were currently under treatment.
Olympo was now under the custody of the Silay City police station. (With Mae Singuay/PN)
