Another Grim Accident Involving a Bus at NLEX

**Hanren** · November 1st, 2008 10:17 PM

No one wanted this accident to happen but still, it was the bus who caused this accident.

What a way to celebrate All Saints Day.. tsk. May they Rest in Peace! Ingat po tayong lahat lalo na yung mga pauwi pabalik.

Overtaking bus slams into car in Pampanga; 6 dead, 56 hurt

11/01/2008 | 01:13 PM

(UPDATED 4:04) MANILA, Philippines — At least six people, including a priest, were killed in a head-on collision between a packed passenger bus and a utility vehicle along the North Luzon Expressway in Pampanga on Saturday.

Police said fifty-six others were injured, many of them in critical condition.

Sr. Supt. Fernando Villanueva, regional officer of the police Highway Patrol Group 3, said the incident involved a Fermina Express bus with body number 97824 and plate number NYN-688 and a Toyota Revo with plate number XHE-829.

"Umoovertake itong bus at kinuha ang linya ng Revo (The bus was overtaking another vehicle and went into the Revo's lane)," Villanueva said in an interview on dzBB radio.

Preliminary investigation showed the bus was heading north for Pangasinan while the Revo was heading south to Manila when they collided.

The incident occurred at about 1 p.m. at the portion of the NLEX near Sta. Ines village in Mabalacat town in Pampanga.

Senior Supt Pete Singian, Pampanga provincial director, said four of the fatalities were killed on the spot, including the Revo’s two riders and three of the bus passengers.

A fourth bus passenger died later in hospital of severe injuries, he said also over dzBB radio.

Police identified three of the fatalities as Fr. Domingo Moraleda of Claret School in Quezon City, Revo driver as Ruth Dianne Ferrer of Diliman, Quezon City; and Aurelia Montera of undertermined address.

Ferrer’s dead companion was described as a foreigner but the identity has yet to be established.

Superintentent Singian earlier told dzBB that bus driver Bernardo V. Santos, of Mangaldan, Pangasinan, was among those killed on the spot but other police officials assigned to investigate said the driver was still fighting for his life in hospital.

Singian said one of the passengers earlier reported to be a child turned out to be a “small woman."

“There was no child among the fatalities," he said.

Police said most of the passengers were on their way home or the All Saints and All Souls Day holidays. Province-bound buses from Manila were packed on Friday as people rushed to their rural homes to visit their loved ones in cemeteries.

Violent impact

Superintendent Villanueva said the impact of the collision was apparently so violent. "Grabe, naghiwalay ang katawan (It was gruesome. Some of the fatalities were dismembered)," he said.

Reporter Benjie Liwanag, who was reporting at the accident site, said the Revo was wrecked beyond recognition. “Warak ‘yung Revo, pati yung makina tumalsik (The Revo is a total wreck. Its engine was thrown into a distance)," he said.

He said the front portion of the bus was crumpled and anyone seating in the front seats could not have survived.

“Nagkalat ang mga bag, pagkain, sinelas, kuwarta at puro duguan ang mga upuan na nahiwalay sa bus (Bags, food, slippers and money are all around the wreck and blood-soaked seats have been separated from the vehicle)," he reported.

“Even the road shoulder has been destroyed," Liwanag said, explaining that the two vehicles were thrown off the road upon impact. - GMANews.TV

Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/130814/O...6-dead-56-hurt

**ghosthunter** · November 1st, 2008 11:57 PM

Too bad no pictures.

**nic** · November 2nd, 2008 07:25 AM

Kakapikon na talaga mga bus driverws, dami na namamatay dahil sa kanila!
Sorry kung medyo violent tong post ko, pero minsan talaga gusto kong habulin mga yan at paputukan makina o gulong nila.
Pero syempre dapat responsible gun owners tayo.
Sorry naglalabas lang ng galit

**ans_lim168** · November 2nd, 2008 07:34 AM

I think this would not be the last accident involving a bus....clearly it's due to driver's error that caused the incident...It all boils down to how the company hires their drivers and how the Lto issues licenses.

**badbadtz.carlo** · November 2nd, 2008 11:09 AM

Sad...

kaya ako, and friendly advice to all, stay away from buses, especially at night when they are all in teleport mode.. parang mga gustong kunin ang Ayala to Valenzuela ng 5mins..

wala namang mawawala sa ten kung pagbigyan naten silang mauna...
at least tayo and our cars are safe...

defensive driving na lang po...

**claRkEnt** · November 2nd, 2008 11:39 AM

i suspect the vehicle that the bus tried to overtook didn't give way. So nagtagal sya sa opposite lane and di na nakabawi. Medyo delikado talaga dyan sa area na yan ng NLEX. Salubungan talaga ang sasakyan that's why in that portion of NLEX, speed limit is down to 80kph.

**boybi** · November 2nd, 2008 08:34 PM

Accident magnet talaga yang mga Fermina and Santrans buses. Sarap pasabugin garahe ng mga yan para hindi na makapag biyahe mga buses nila.

**Horsepower** · November 3rd, 2008 08:57 AM

Sayang ganda pa naman nung driver na Atenean ng revo. What a waste of life, so young at 22.

Nagulat siguro sya sa pagsalubong ng bus.

**artpogi** · November 3rd, 2008 09:13 AM

I saw the picture of that accident sa Bulletin kahapon, grabe yung Revo, nawala yung drivers side, akala mo hinati lengthwise.

Really sad.

**Mile2** · November 3rd, 2008 09:46 AM

The Bus company was originally "Minas Bus lines" and was later named "Ferminas Express". This bus company was so notorious of having been involved in too many road accidents and had many times been suspended by LTFRB.

I still remember when one of their bus hits a school bus full of kids going to school at Regalado Ave. in Fairview, the school bus was overturned and you can see lots of blood and school bags thrown off the street.

To those who work in Ayala, it was the same bus company that had a man pinned to death and bursting out his brain in front of 6750 Bldg