Published May 12, 2021, 10:18 AM
One of the two victims plowed by a truck outside the city hall of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan and who were in critical condition at a hospital has died on Tuesday.
Analyn Somooc, 54, a resident of Barangay Graceville, succumbed to multiple rib fracture, according to her daughter, Abegail, and the chief of Ospital ng Lungsod ng San Jose Del Monte, Dr. Erbe Bugay.
She was one of the two who were pinned under a dump truck owned by the local government that figured in an accident after its driver, 57-year-old Herminio Gerona, suffered a heart attack and later died while driving.
Published May 12, 2021, 4:24 PM
Brig. General Valeriano T. De Leon, Police Regional Office 3 (PRO 3) director, extended his condolences to the families of two people who died when a truck plowed into a group of Social Amelioration Program (SAP) beneficiaries in the City of San Jose Del Monte on Tuesday, May 11.
(Police Regional Office 3 / MANILA BULLETIN)
Following the accident, De Leon advised people not to drive if they think they are stressed or unwell to avoid a repeat of such tragedy.
Initial investigation showed that a city government-owned dump truck manned by Herminio Gerona crashed into a tent near the City Hall of San Jose del Monte as he suffered a heart attack while driving around 7:40 a.m.