DUMALINAO. Zamboanga del Sur (Sept. 18, 2018) - A Motor vehicular traffic accident (MVTA) transpired at about 5:20 PM of September 14, 2018 along the National Road Boundary of Barangay Tickwas crossing of Purok Magallanes, Barangay Malasik, all of Dumalinao, Zamboanga Del Sur.
The accident was involving one utility passenger van (Nissan Brand), color white with black combination on his lower part of the vehicles body with Plate Nr GSB-539, owned and registered under the name of certain Mr Ezomarr Nitollama, a resident of Poblacion Lapuyan. The vehicle was driven by Melvin Christian Lahagan Montibon, 25, married, and a resident of Purok Villiana, Barangay Salambuyan, Poblacion Lapuyan, Zamboanga Del Sur.
Accordingly while traversing on the abovementioned placed, the said driver accidentally loss control of his vehicle due to mechanical brake failure in which the said driver eluded one passenger van on his front and overtaking going to his right side of the road in which also during that time disembarking passengers.
As a result instantaneously hitting/bumped the following persons namely:
Michael Rullen, 33 yrs. old, married, a conductor by profession and a resident of Purok Bonifacio, Brgy Tickwas, Dumalinao,
One bystander named Cesar Carpentero Dela Torre, 20, single, student, and a resident of Purok Magallanes, Brgy Tickwas, Dumalinao, and three other passengers from the passenger van namedly:
Jessel Gaston, 24 yrs. old, single, plain housewife by proffession with his one month old baby and her mother
Mrs Kristina Gaston, 47 yrs old, both resident of Purok Marang, Barangay Malasik, Dumalinao.
All victims’ suffered head contusions; fractured legs, thigh and knees, and multiple serious physical injuries to the different parts of their bodies were immediately rushed to the nearest hospital for medical treatment, while the baby is now under observation by the doctors at Zamboanga Del Sur Medical Center, Dao Pagadian City.
