White lady’ tale in car mishap doubted

By Jennelyn Mondejar

ALCALA, Pangasinan – Local folk here said stories of a “white lady” which frequents a road here were figments of the imagination of the gullible.

This, after six people were hospitalized when the Nissan Frontier Navara they were riding in turned upside down after its driver allegedly saw the “white lady” crossing the street in Barangay Kisikis here before dawn last week.

Police quoted Jimmy Lanusa, 39, as saying that he was driving the brand new pick-up truck with five passengers when the “white lady” suddenly crossed the road, prompting him to avoid her.

The truck smashed into a parked mechanized farm tractor, locally known as kuliglig, and then into a mango tree, sending it turning turtle.

The victims were rushed to the Polymedic and Trauma Hospital in Villasis town.

Police merely shrugged off Lanusa’s claim on the “white lady,” saying it was just a tale good for All Souls’ Day.

Local folk said the driver might have fallen asleep and merely used the “white lady” tale to cover up his fault.