Speeding truck kills motorist

KIDAPAWAN CITY – A motorist believed speeding too fast while maneuvering a dangerous curve along Kidapawan-Makilala highway was killed when his driven motorcycle rammed a 10-wheeler truck, around 11 a.m., Friday, July 20, reports said.

Chief Inspector John Rick Medel, chief of Makilala PNP, identified the victim as Nelson Duran Bacayo, 59, construction worker from Hagonoy, Davao del Sur.

Medel, citing reports from Makilala PNP’s traffic division, said Bacayo was on his way to Digos City when unexpectedly hit the truck’s rear portion at the Malaang Bridge at Barangay Sagu-

ing, Makilala.

The trailer truck with license plate number MEC 427 loaded with a backhoe was headed towards Kidapawan City.

The rescue team from Makilala PNP rushed Bacayo to the nearest hospital but few minutes later was declared dead by his attending physicians, according to Medel.

Bystanders told media here that despite the accident, the truck driver who was later identified as Danny Perez Geraldino, 49, of Tibungco, Davao City, sped on.

He surrendered to the police in Kidapawan City. MALU CADELINA MANAR ployed to ensure the security and peace and order during the SONA were reminded to impose maximum tolerance.

The policemen will be augmented by at least 600 soldiers who will be fielded by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), personnel from the PNP-Special Action Force, the force multipliers from the barangay and the Quezon City Local Government as well as from the non-government organization.

“Basically kung talagang magulo sila that’s one and hindi natin alam kung ano saloobin nila pero mukhang hindi naman mangyayari ‘yun not unless na merong mag infiltrate sa grupo nila. Yun lang naman ang iniiwasan natin dito at ibibigay naman natin ang gusto nila hangga’t kaya natin,” he said.

(Basically, if they will break the peace and order that’s one and we do not know their feelings but it would not happen unless somebody in the group may infiltrate. That’s what we avoid here and we give what they want if we can.)

Albayalde said they are yet to monitor any possible threat against the event but intelligence and information gathering continues.

Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) Secretary General Renato Reyes said among the issues they will be tackling are the Charter Change, contractualization in the labor sector, the Train law and the prevalent killing amid the government’s war on drugs.

However, Reyes said it is no longer advisable for Duterte to face the protesters now due to the pile of promises he failed to address.

“It’s for the best that the president would not go out to meet SONA protesters. The circumstances today are very much different from last year. Just the same, the protests will be peaceful and well-organized. We do not foresee any untoward incidents coming from the groups,” he said.

Right after his speech in 2017, Duterte faced the angry-protest holding program outside the Batasan complex.

Albayalde, who was then the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) director, said what Duterte has done is unexpected and had become a security “nightmare” for them.

However, he said for this year, they are prepared for any eventualities.

Meanwhile, in an interview in Camp Crame on Saturday, July 21, Special Assistant Secretary to the President Bong Go said such event will no longer happen on Monday, July 23.

“Hindi na mangyayari ‘yung nangyari nung nakaraang taon na hinarap n’ya (ang mga protesters). Ikaw gusto mo pa bang humarap doon sa, nakita n’yo naman mga plano nila. Gusto mo pa bang humarap doon kung susunugin ‘yung mukha mo?” he said.

(What happened last year when he faced them (the protesters) will not happen again. Would you like to face them if they set your face on fire?)