7 killed in separate South Cotabato road accidents

SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines - Seven people, among them a local traffic enforcer, were killed in separate highway accidents in the provincial capital and in nearby towns in the past two days, police blotters indicated.

 

The first two fatalities were identified as Elmo Padernal and Lester Jordan, whose speeding motorcycles collided head-on on a secluded stretch of a highway in Banga town on Saturday.

 

Two others, Jojo Miranda and Gladys Anne Paranaque, died on the spot the next day when a bus rammed the motorcycle they were riding in Barangay Carpenter Hill in the south of Koronadal City.

 

Koronadal City is the seat of the South Cotabato provincial government and the administrative capital of Region 12.

   

Motorists Carl John Leonida and Danny Camariñas were killed Sunday afternoon in one accident after another in busy thoroughfares in Koronadal City.

 

The latest to perish in these series of accidents was Clarence Federiso, a member of the city's Traffic Management Unit.

 

Federiso was killed when a speeding bus sideswept his motorcycle while at Gen. Santos Drive southwest of Koronadal City.

 

His badly-injured passenger, Christine Joy Pagdato is still in critical condition in a hospital.