Police investigators at the scene of the road accident in Guiwan village in Zamboanga City. (Mindanao Examiner Photo)
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Aug. 4, 2013) – A motorcycle rider was wounded after he rammed the rear of a tricycle during a drizzle late Sunday in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines.
The tricycle driver, Teodulo Graciano, said he was driving with two passengers when they were rammed from behind near a bus terminal in the village of Guiwan. “It was a hard. I don’t know what hit us until I saw the motorcycle there in the middle of the road,” Graciano told the Mindanao Examiner.
Gracia said his left foot was injured from the accident and that his tricycle was also damaged from the powerful impact of the motorcycle. He said his passengers, shaken from the crash, just walked away. “I don’t know if they were injured, but they just walked away,” he said.
“You can see the damage from my tricycle and its distance from that motorcycle over there and you can imagine the impact of this accident,” he said, pointing to the damaged motorcycle on the road and its driver still lying on the road from the crash.
A woman, who claims to be the sister-in-law of the motorcycle driver, has identified him as Gem Anthony Irea. “He was on his way to pick up somebody and this accident now,” she said.
Irea, who was unconscious for several minutes, suffered a cut below his right eye as his frantic friends tried to prevent civilians and journalists from taking pictures of the victim. The ambulance arrived almost 30 minutes after the accident. (Mindanao Examiner)
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