26 hurt in Kidapawan bus crash

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 03:19:08 +0000

A PASSENGER bus lies on its side after falling into shallow ravine in Barangay Armas before dawn Friday. Twenty-six people were hurt in the accident. (Ali Macabalang)

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Twenty six people were injured when a passenger bus ferrying them fell into a shallow ravine while traversing an accident-prone segment of the national highway in Barangay Amas here before down Friday.

Residents, reportedly awakened by a loud noise caused by the accident at about 2a.m., responded and rescued all 25 passengers and their driver trapped inside the bus by breaking the rear windshield of the vehicle, witnesses said.

Informed about the mishap, the provincial police office located about four kilometers from the accident site sent a rescue team and brought the 26 injured people to the North Cotabato Provincial Hospital also in Barangay Amas, residents said.

Lt. Col. Bernard Tayong, speaking for the provincial police office, said all the 26 victims, including bus driver Jimmy Jose and his unnamed conductor, have been declared out of danger by attending physicians.

Jose, driver of Mindanao Star bus with body number 15676, told police investigators how he lost control of the bus due to “slippery” condition of the road amid intermittent downpours.

Tayong corroborated the driver’s claim, saying “it was raining overnight in Kidapawan and at the time of the mishap, the road was still wet.”

But residents argued the claim, saying the four-lane road, which was rehabilitated less than a year ago, could not be slippery even during
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