11 injured in Cagayan Valley road accidents

By Charlie Lagasca

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – At least 11 people were hurt in separate road accidents in the region, the latest of which took place in Tuguegarao City, the capital of Cagayan, late Monday night.

The Tuguegarao mishap happened when an ambulance and a Toyota Tamaraw FX collided with each other along a pothole-ridden stretch of the national highway in the city’s Barangay Namabbalan Sur.

The collision, reports said, occurred after the ambulance, owned by the Delfin Albano town government in Isabela, which was on its way to the Cagayan Valley Medical Center to fetch a patient, tried to avoid a pothole and rammed into the southbound Tamaraw FX, resulting in injuries to six people from both vehicles.

Those injured, now being treated at the People’s General Hospital in Tuguegarao City, were identified as Epifania Angui, Jesusa Masibbo, Manuel Lucero, Henry Cordial, Renison de la Cruz, and Ester Mercado, all of Isabela.

Meanwhile, five other people are now confined in a hospital in Isabela’s Cauayan City for injuries they sustained after their Cagayan-bound Toyota Prado slumped into a cornfield in Aurora town, also in Isabela, earlier that day.

Reports identified the injured as Jimmy Anoon, Jimmy Anoon Sr., Ryan Bayona, Gonzalo Anoon, and the driver, Ronald Anoon, all of Caloocan City.

They were on their way to the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority in Santa Ana town when their driver suddenly lost control of the wheel, causing the van to hit a perimeter post, turn turtle and land in a cornfield along the national highway.