TACLOBAN CITY – A driver and his assistant cheated death after their wing van loaded with 700 Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) tanks crashed and caught fire in Barangay San Vicente, Bontoc, Southern Leyte, last Saturday, June 11.
Reports reaching the Police Regional Office (PRO)-8 headquarters here Monday, June 13, disclosed that the driver, Raymund Entia, 38, of Kiblawan, Davao del Sur, said their vehicle lost its brakes while negotiating a curved and descending portion of the national highway on the evening of that day.
The truck rammed a concrete barrier and the LPG tanks exploded, causing a fire.
The driver and his assistant Hermes Barason, 22, a resident of Kidapawan City, were able to leave their truck before it exploded but they sustained injuries. They were taken by responding police personnel to the Sogod District Hospital, Sogod, Southern Leyte.
Personnel of the Bontoc Fire Station, Sogod Fire Station, Tomas Oppus Fire Station, and Southern Leyte Electric Cooperative responded to the accident to control the fire.
The van was on its way to Davao City from Pasay City to deliver 700 tanks of LPG when the accident happened.