Distraught student jumps from flyover

A 23-year-old mechanical engineering student who had been struggling with academics decided to end his life early yesterday morning by jumping from the Magallanes flyover in Makati City.

Senior Police Officer 1 Levelie Cristobal, case investigator, said Michael Cruzin, a resident of Lealtad, Manila was pronounced dead on arrival at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Pasay City at around 2:35 a.m.

Cruzin, a student of the Technological Institute of the Philippines (TIP), wrote a four-page suicide letter, wherein he apologized to his family for his shortcomings in school resulting in his failure to graduate.

A vendor, Dolores Leomo, 48, of Barangay Bangkal, Makati City, said she was attending to customers at her roadside eatery when she saw the victim plummet from the flyover.

Leomo, assisted by bystanders, brought Cruzin to the hospital.

Meanwhile, three people were hurt in an accident yesterday morning along the South Luzon Expressway in Parañaque City.

The victims, identified as Bernard Tayco, 20; Alexandro Ladera, 20, and Edison Castro, 35, were on board an Isuzu Elf (WAD-414) that hit a concrete barrier at the southbound lane of the highway at around 10:20 a.m.

Prober PO3 Arthur Cortez, of the Traffic Management Group, said the driver, Roel Aguirre, 29, lost control of the Elf after the truck lost one of its wheels while approaching the Bicutan toll exit. The truck then hit the concrete barrier at the center island.

The victims, all helpers, on their way to Los Baños, Laguna, were rushed to the South Super Highway Medical Center.— Evelyn Macairan, Edu Punay