Monday, November 2, 2009

What Happen before 0859 Hrs in Gamu. Isabela


Over here in Philippine they do not have  have a central bus terminal. Each bus company has it’s own terminal and they are spread all over Metro Manila and not to say they stop everywhere and anywhere to pickup customers. Our restaurant is facing the road, I had seem such crazy stunt, fast speed driving, emergency stopping, 1 point turn in 6 feet wide road, with those moves they could put those professional  Hollywood stuntman in shame. They are some decent premier bus service like Florida  and Victory bus liner, when I say decent bus service the key factor is the bus driver who drove the bus and also the company ability to inoculated to the bus driver the mentally capacity that the safety of passenger lies in their hand or before driving go through a visualization hypnosis exercise that every trip he take his loves one, mother is sitting inside the bus. Special $$ bonus incentive for the driver every year a least they know they need to last that long and be alive to collect the $$. 
Lastly the driver mental capacity to understand that in reality they are driving a bus, not a plane, tank, F1 formula racing car or stuntman. The driver himself also had the enlightenment, spiritual awareness  that BUS don't kill THEY do.         

 News Article 
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EIGHT people died and 25 suffered multiple injuries when a passenger bus plowed two vehicles coming from opposite direction at pre-dawn Wednesday in Cauayan City, Isabela, Wednesday before daybreak. Initial report reaching Camp Crame revealed that a Dagupan Bus Lines bound for Tuao, Cagayan, collided with a Toyota Hi-Lux pick-up heading for Manila along the national highway in Barangay Tagaran in Cauayan City.
Many of the victims are natives of the province and neighboring Cagayan who were to spend All Saints’ Day with their relatives. The Cagayan-bound bus reportedly left its terminal in Cubao, Quezon City, at about 6 p.m. the night before day.
The eight fatalities included the pick-up’s driver, identified as Perlito Bautista, and seven bus passengers.
Six bodies were brought to the Funeraria Carbonel in Cauayan City for autopsy. The incident occurred at about 3:30 a.m.
According to Chief Supt. Roberto Damian, Cagayan Valley police head, an Isuzu D-Max vehicle driven by Mamentino Daturan and the Hi-Lux collided during the incident, causing Bautista’s immediate death.
Bautista, reportedly a manager of the Cauayan City branch of Universal Leaf Corp., was on his way home when tragedy struck.
Scene investigators said the bus swerved and hit first the Toyota Hi-Lux before it rammed into the concrete fence of the Taggaran bridge and fell.
Fourteen of those who were wounded were rushed to the Cauayan District Hospital, while 10 were taken to the Garcias General Hospital in the city. The other victims were brought to Cauayan Specialist Hospital.
The driver of Dagupan Bus Lines immediately fled after the incident but later surrendered to the police, claiming he ran to avoid being lynched by the mob who rushed to the scene.
Investigators are now preparing multiple and frustrated multiple homicides through reckless imprudence against the bus driver whose identity is being withheld pending investigation.

With report from Francis Hidalgo Jr.

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