2 of 3 coeds on motorbike dead in Manila accident

Safety is still the least concern of many motorcycle riders. This was borne out by an accident that took the lives of two college students on Friday in Manila. Home was just minutes away for Jenee Anne Lingal, but she didn’t make it alive after the motorbike she was sharing with two other female students went wayward and threw them onto the curb of Ayala Bridge in Manila late Thursday night.

Lingal and Sheranebeth Ocampo, the driver and the only one of the three women who wore a helmet, died of injuries they sustained in the  accident, according to SPO1 Bert Francisco of the Manila Police District.

Lingal and Ocampo died on the spot. The third rider, Jane Margarita Lastrollo, was still undergoing treatment at Philippine General Hospital on Friday. Francisco said Lingal and Lastrollo were students of National Teachers College (NTC), while Ocampo was from the Philippine College of Health Sciences.

An initial investigation by Francisco showed that the three women were on a motorbike moving along Ayala Bridge going to Mendiola around 11:50 p.m. when it lost control.

Francisco noted that the road was slippery that night. “There were no witnesses to the crash so we’re hoping that closed-circuit television cameras in the area will provide us a complete picture of what happened,” he said.

The accident site was just a few meters away from Lingal’s home on Casal Street in Quiapo, he added.

With report by Jovic Yee