UPDATE (330pm). At about 3pm, LTFRB Chairman Winston Ginez personally handed over the 30-day preventive suspension order against Don Mariano transit, the bus company whose bus fell off the Skyway 5am this morning, killing 22 people.
@LTFRB_Chairman Winston Ginez,personal na isinilbi ang suspension order ng Don Mariano bus. pic.twitter.com/jI2uyMyxOl @divinecaraecle
— DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) December 16, 2013
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This is not the kind of news you’d want to read on a Monday morning.
“At around 5am this morning, Dec 16, at least 21 people died when a Pacita-bound Don Mariano Transit bus (UVC 916) fell off the elevated part of Skyway in Barangay Marcelo Green, Parañaque City and plunged into the west service road of the southbound lane of South Luzon Expressway (SLEx),” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.
The report further revealed that “a van (ULX 874) reportedly carrying at least two people was also completely damaged after the bus fell on it.” The driver of the van was said to have died on the spot.
According to the report, “Traffic investigators have yet to determine how the bus fell off the Skyway.” The other injured passengers were rushed to the hospital.
Watch an Umagang Kay Ganda video report here:
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Photo by Niño Jesus Obreta, as shared by @Inquirerdotnet
