SANTIAGO CITY-Sixteen-year-old twin brothers died on Monday (February 10) after their motorcycle had slammed onto an oncoming van, whose driver fled but later surrendered in his hometown, along the national road in Barangay Mungia, Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya.
The twin brothers, who came from their house to get vegetables and other viand for their stock as food for the schools’ sports competition as track and field athletes in Nueva Vizcaya, died due to severe head injuries and fractured bones, probers said. They did not reach the hospital alive.
The brothers rode a motorcycle as their village is far from the población and they could hardly take a public utility jeep for transport.
Police Major Nova Lyn Aggasid, Nueva Vizcaya police spokesperson, told this correspondent in a phone interview on Tuesday that the van driver fled, leaving his victims, and eventually surrendered to the village head in Tactac, Santa Fe, Nueva Vizcaya.
The suspect was brought to the Santa Fe police, who later turned him over to the Dupax del Norte police who have jurisdiction over the road crash.
Armando Balagat, the twin brothers’ father, told the police that his sons were “very happy” when they arrived to get vegetables as they qualified to the track and field sports competition in the province slated to start today.
Aggasid said the suspect was indicted for reckless imprudence resulting to double homicide and damage to property before the prosecutor’s office today (February 11).
A possible case for abandonment of one’s victim was not included in the charge sheet. The victims may have survived if the suspect immediately brought them to the hospital instead of leaving them in a road with scarce transport utilities, witnesses said.#
