Motorcycle rider killed in road crash
BACOLOD City – A motorcycle rider died after he crashed into a truck loaded with sugarcane at Hacienda Sta. Maria, Barangay E. Lopez, Silay City, Negros Occidental last Saturday. Police identified the victim as Jemar Panes of the said village. Police Lieutenant Colonel Robert Petate, city police chief, said Panes failed

By Glazyl Y. Masculino
By Glazyl Y. Masculino
BACOLOD City – A motorcycle rider died after he crashed into a truck loaded with sugarcane at Hacienda Sta. Maria, Barangay E. Lopez, Silay City, Negros Occidental last Saturday.
Police identified the victim as Jemar Panes of the said village.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Robert Petate, city police chief, said Panes failed to see the truck parked on the roadside.
Petate said the truck’s two tires were deflated, thus an early warning device was placed, but Panes probably didn’t notice it because the area was not well-lighted.
“Wala man naka hazard ang truck,” Petate said, adding that the truck driver left the vehicle to his helper-companion to buy food.
Petate said that Panes crashed into the left rear part of the truck that caused his immediate death.
Petate said the 32-year-old truck driver from Bago City is detained at Silay City Police Station, pending settlement between both parties or filing of charges.
Petate said they have yet to check with Panes’s family why he was still outside their house around 10 p.m. amid the implementation of curfew hours in the province from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. due to the pandemic.
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