He really should have just hired a driver.
“Juanito Nocos, vice president for sales of Solar Entertainment’s Basketball TV, has been identified as the 73-year-old man whose car plunged three stories from a multilevel parking building of the Greenhills Shopping Center in San Juan last Friday, August 15,” reports Non Alquitran in The Philippine Star.
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Police said that Nocos, who had undergone a heart bypass surgery and had pacemaker, should not have been driving in the first place because under Land Transportation Office (LTO) regulations, those who have undergone bypass surgery are prohibited from driving.
The report noted: “Cathy Ko, general manager of the Shopping Center Division of Ortigas & Co., said in a television interview that Nocos was trying to back out of his parking slot when he passed out and crashed into several vehicles before breaching the car park wall. Nocos survived the fall and sustained bruises. He was rushed to the Cardinal Santos Medical Center where he is in stable condition. The car’s airbag saved him from severe injuries.”
The report added that a total of nine vehicles were damaged during the accident—five cars on the third level of the parking building and four more vehicles on the ground floor.
Nocos has claimed that he “blacked out” while he was trying to back out of his parking slot.
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