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Kim Asaytono — the 22-year-old daughter of former Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) player Nelson Asaytono — is now detained at the Manila Police District (MPD) headquarters after her vehicle crashed into shops and a waiting shed in Sta. Mesa, Manila, on Tue night, May 19.
The final police report showed that Kim’s AUV hit 14 people that night. One of the people she hit, a man named Omar Lastimado, died.
READ: Ex-PBA player Nelson Asaytono’s daughter crashes vehicle in Sta. Mesa, 1 man killed
“During the interview, Kim sat on a blue cot — the only furniture inside the one-by-three-meter cell of the MPD’s women’s detention center,” reports Aie Balagtas See in The Philippine Star.
Kim talked about the possibility of driving again when she gets out of jail. She said, “Maybe I’ll get a driver. Maybe, I will still ride a car but I will never drive again.”
The report noted that she “made no excuses for her actions nor did she deny any wrongdoing.” Kim expressed her remorse for everything that happened, especially for killing Lastimado and making orphans of his children.
“I’m angry at myself. I’m angry at myself because I took away someone’s father. I can’t sleep at night. Every time I close my eyes, I could see the images of the accident. I really feel bad about it. I can’t even eat. I deserve this. I regret driving that night. I deserve this,” Kim said.
Kim said her family will help support Lastimado’s children.
She went on to explain that she drank cocktails somewhere along Dapitan Extension hours before she — along with a female friend in the front passenger seat — figured in the accident.
Kim insisted, “I was not drunk but I had cocktails.”
In any case, Kim was driving without a license that night. She reasoned that she had left her license that night in another car.
She said, “I was driving 10 kilometers per hour over my normal speed, which is about 40 to 60 kph.”
Then, as kim herself put it, “everything happened too fast.”
The report revealed: “Kim claimed that she had been trying to avoid a blue sedan that was in front of her at that time. She alleged that the driver in front was swerving so she tried to overtake. Unfortunately, the driver moved toward the direction she was about to take prompting her to ‘swerve.'”
Photo: Kim Asaytono’s Facebook page
