A FEMALE judge died after the motorcycle she was riding hit another motorcycle in Barangay Cabiangon, Pinamungajan town, Cebu province on Wednesday morning, Oct. 22. (Contributed photo)
CEBU CITY – A female judge died in a vehicular accident in Barangay Cabiangon, Pinamungajan town, Cebu province on Wednesday morning, Oct. 22.
Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) Judge Carmela Rosario Pasquin, 41, was declared dead when she was brought to a hospital.
Police said the judge was the backrider of a motorycle driven by Eric Gelizon Lanzarate, a 48-year-old court processor in MTCC Aloguinsan-Pinamungajan.
The accident happened at 6:55 a.m.
Police said the accident occurred when a motorcycle that the victims were following suddenly turned left on the national highway.
Police said Lanzarate failed to avoid the motorcycle in front, causing them to crash. The impact threw the judge off the motorcycle and landed on the concrete pavement.
The driver of the other motorcycle was identified as Mark James Cabiling, 19.
The judge suffered serious injuries and did not make the hospital alive.