Traffic Accident That Killed 10 People

**kellyhound** · #1 ● 08-05-2022, 05:49 PM

Philippines Ten people died while four others were hurt in a three-vehicle smash-up in a highway yesterday afternoon.

The crash involved a cargo truck, a pickup truck, and a utility van that was bringing a group back from a team-building activity in the Island Garden City of Samal in Davao del Norte.

The collision left a ghastly sight of mangled bodies, twisted metal, and the injured strewn all over a section of the highway.

The van passengers were employees of the General Santos City-based Tuna Exporters Multi-Purpose Cooperative (Tempco).

Police said they rented the van from a group that did not have documents for a car rental business.

The driver of the pickup truck said he was negotiating a curve towards the General City proper when the van ahead of him swerved in the opposite direction, and headed straight toward the oncoming truck.

Investigators were looking into the proliferation of vehicles being rented out or used as public utility vehicles without government permits.

A Police Executive Master Sergeant of the Highway Patrol Group said more than 1,000 vans were operating as PUVs without papers.

Authorities said there was also a rising number of unregistered car rental businesses in the region.

Police identified the fatalities as:
C. A, cargo truck driver
N. P, van driver
L. J. L.
M. D.
C. A.
R.P.-o.
R. J. N.
S. M.
A. A.
R.A.M.
The following were identified as injured:

S. B.
R. G.
J. V.
J. V.