11-vehicle pileup kills pastor, injures 7 others

A Kia Sportage and a taxicab are among 11 vehicles involved in the yesterday’s MC Briones St. accident.
(CDN PHOTO/NORMAN MENDOZA)

A basketball coach  driving his motorcycle to Cebu City was killed when a wayward 10-wheeler truck hit him and ploughed through nine other vehicles in a highway in Basak, Mandaue City  yesterday morning.

Manolet ‘Badz” Subang, 28, of Lamac, Consolacion town  died on the spot.

He was a pastor of the Living Word Christian Fellowship.

Seven other persons were injured.

The driver of the 10-wheeler Isuzu dropside truck lost control and rammed four  motorcycles, two taxis, an Isuzu Elf, a jeepney and a Kia Sportage car before stopping 500 meters from the first point of impact.

The accident happened at 8:45 a.m. along the national highway of M.C.  Briones Street  corner H. Abellana Street in Basak Mandaue City.

The corner is locally called “Eskina Canduman” because it leads to barangay Canduman.

The truck driven by Nelson Isobal, 50, was delivering sacks of sugar to Cebu City from Sogod town, northern Cebu.

While traversing the  downhill stretch from Jagobiao, the truck lost its brakes and rammed vehicles cruising in front of  it, said traffic investigator P02 Nelson Sadile of the Mandaue city police.

The truck first rammed a Honda XRM motorcycle, then a taxicab, an Isuzu elf owned by Cenapro Chemical Corp., a PUJ which skidded  towards an electric post, then  sideswiped a Yamaha Mio motorcycle before hitting the motorcycle driven by Subang.

Subang was thrown off  his motorbike, landed on the pavement and was run over by the truck.

A photo of his dismembered body on the street posted in  social media prompted some of the victim’s friends to appeal to netizens to stop spreading the graphic  photo.

After hitting Subang’s motorcycle, the truck hit another taxicab, then the Kia Sportage and a parked XRM motorcycle owned by traffic enforcer Marvin Quijano who was assigned in the area.

The seven people injured in  the accident were identified as  Honda XRM driver, Alberto Tan, 59, of Liloan town; Jay Paul Tan, 25, of Polpogan, Consolacion town; and the five jeepney passengers Irene Salgado of Consolacion, 28; Ramil Campus, 43, of Kamputhaw; Alemar Algar, 19; Gee-an Pradia, 8; and Rolly Pradia, 5.

The truck driver is detained at the Mandaue City Police Office  station 3.

He will face  charges of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide, multiple physical injuries and damage to properties.

The lone fatality, Subang, was one of the coaches assigned to handle the Athletes for Christ in Excellent Services (ACES), a group under the Living Word Church. –Jhunnex Napallacan, Norman V. Mendoza