Two motorists died instantly while six others, including three minors, were injured in a highway accident involving a motorcycle and two vehicles in Barangay Magon, Tantangan, South Cotabato on October 24.
Officials of the Tantangan Municipal Police Station told reporters on Saturday, October 25, that the two fatalities, Joerhen Jade Losario and Rhiam Jade Palomo, were riding a motorcycle that collided head-on with a Suzuki Swift driven by a Department of Education employee based in Balingasag, Misamis Oriental. Both victims were declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.
Losario and Palomo, both 23, had just graduated from the criminology program of Sultan Kudarat State University in Tacurong City, not far from the accident site at Purok Boundary, Barangay Magon.
The Suzuki Swift also collided with a Toyota Rush coming from the opposite direction, according to responding municipal and barangay officials. Losario’s motorcycle caught fire and was completely destroyed in the collision.
The drivers of the Toyota Rush and the Suzuki Swift, along with its four passengers-including another DepEd employee from Misamis Oriental-and three adolescent girls, suffered various injuries and contusions.