BACOLOD CITY – Eight persons, including a toddler and a senior citizen, were injured after a truck crashed into a house in Sitio Sambag, Barangay Carabalan, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, January 27.
EIGHT persons were injured when a truck crashed into a house in Barangay Carabalan, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, January 27. (Photo courtesy of Himamaylan City Police Station)
Police identified the injured as Fe Narciso, 37; Jose Salazar, 67; Je Ann Salazar, 21; and a three-year-old girl, occupants of the house, and truck passengers Efren Gaitan, 21; Jofrey Ganaba, 19, and Helen Hernando, 56, and truck driver Erwin Bejelidad, 42.
Police Lt. Col. Anthony Grande, Himamaylan police chief, said the truck’s brakes malfunctioned and rammed the
house made of light materials beside the highway.
Four people resting inside the house were injured and the truck driver and passengers sustained minor injuries.
Grande said they have reached a settlement and the incident has been referred to the barangay.