The Mitsubishi Estrada pickup that carried Mayor Elvis Soria of San Marcelino, Zambales, is a wreck after it collided head-on with a passenger bus along the national highway in Barangay Pamatawan in Subic town. Soria survived the accident but two of his companions died on the spot. INQUIRER FILE / ALLAN MACATUNO
According to the latest Road Crash Statistics Report of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s Metro Manila Accident Recording and Analysis System, there were 60,583 road accidents in the National Capital Region from January to July. Of this figure, 258 were fatal; 9,661 resulted in nonfatal injuries while 50,664 resulted in damage to property. In 2015, the MMDA said it recorded 95,615 traffic accidents in the metropolis which killed 519 persons, injured 17,103 others and caused 77,993 cases of property damage. —MARIELLE MEDINA, INQUIRER RESEARCH
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