A public school teacher and her son riding a motorcycle together both died after a wayward minivan rammed them while motoring through a stretch of a highway in Mlang town in Cotabato on Monday.
Officials of the Mlang Municipal Police Station and the Cotabato Provincial Police Office told reporters on Wednesday morning that Sean Andrew Damcel, 13, died instantly from the accident while his 38-year-old mother, Jenelyn, a teacher, succumbed to injuries in a hospital several hours later.
They were riding a motorcycle together, on their way to the Mlang National National High School in the town proper of Mlang, when they were hit by a minivan from the opposite direction of the highway.
Witnesses and police probers who responded to the incident had told reporters that the speeding van first cut through the other lane of the highway and hit the motorcycle of the victims head-on.
The driver of the van that figured in the deadly accident is now locked in a detention facility of the Mlang police force. (JFU, Dec. 4, 2024, in Cotabato City)
