Drama in the Philippines: a coach rushes in a toll after his driver fell asleep, killing 10 people including 4 children and 37 injured. The accident occurs during a busy public holiday.
Ten people died and 37 were injured when a coach struck vehicles waiting for a toll in the North of the Philippines on Thursday, police announced.
The bus first crashed into a sports car, which caused a pile -up with several vehicles arrested also in the toll, the authorities said.
The police told AFP that the driver of the coach admitted to falling asleep before the accident near the city of Tarlac, on the island of Luzon. “”The driver said he was falling asleep and being awakened by the shock of the accident“, I declared the Romel Santos colonel, of the police of Tarlac.
Four minors are among the victims, he added. The accident occurred while highways were very frequented by families due to the Labor Day holiday. The driver and the coach controller were both placed in police custody, said Santos, the first risking an instill for “imprudence that led to multiple homicides“.
Filipino deaths bus accident
