Five people were seriously injured when a wayward truck flipped and crashed into six adjoining houses and three motorcycles along a highway in Barangay Noa, Magpet, Cotabato.
Investigators from the Magpet Municipal Police Station told reporters Monday that the truck driver, Alvin Ilorica, lost control when the brakes malfunctioned while he was navigating a downhill stretch in Barangay Noa, causing the accident.
Noa’s barangay chairman, Alvin Egas, and personnel from the Magpet Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said the truck, fully loaded with bananas that Ilorica and his companions were transporting to a pier outside Cotabato province, rolled over and struck six semi-permanent houses and three parked motorcycles.
One of the damaged houses is located just three meters from a small petroleum vending station.
Egas said Ilorica, his two companions, and two residents inside the damaged houses were injured and were immediately taken to a hospital by emergency responders for treatment.
Egas told reporters that the truck’s owner had assured that they would cover the property damages caused by the accident, as well as the hospital bills for Ilorica, his three companions and the two Barangay Noa residents injured in the incident.