kc estremos was 16 years old. his girlfriend identified as carmel juaton is 17.
i know how painful to lost someone in life... must life must go on!
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bohol sunday post
nov. 4 issue
'Chairman Mao'
jailed for mishap
Radio blocktimer plows into a group of teenagers killing one victim
The long holidays may be a boon under the principle of economics of scale but it can be a bane to the unsuspecting.
This was found out quite belatedly by a radio blocktimer selling on the air energy drinks who was incarcerated because a case cannot be filed against him owing to the long holidays.
Known in the airlanes as "Chairman Mao", Engr. Maurito Lim, a retired executive of the National Power Corp. and now dabbling as a radio blocktimer was imprisoned after his Isuzu Crosswind plowed into a group of teenagers along the roadside in barangay Cantumukad, Loon town Thursday evening.
Interviewed yesterday to get his side of the story, Engr. Lim said the unfortunate event was purely accidental.
Admitting that "he was a little bit tipsy", he said he fell asleep while negotiating the quite Loon highway not noticing the bystanders nearby.
At the same time, Engr. Lim corrected "erroneous" news reports that the vehicle he was driving suffered massive damages as a result of the accident. He said the car only suffered slight damages.
Initial investigation showed that Lim was on the way to this city after attending All Saints Day activities in Buenavista town,
According to PO1 Alexander Nunez, traffic investigator of the Loon police station, charges of homicide through reckless imprudence are being readied as early as Friday morning but since it was a holiday the case cannot be filed. Two more non-working days (Saturday and Sunday) aggravated Lim's ordeal. Lim is also facing two counts of attempted homicide arising from the injury of the two victims.
All three victims were brought to the Gallares Memorial Hospital but hours later, one of the victims identified as KC Estremos, 16, died. His girlfriend identified as Carmel Juaton, 17 along with Ronally Aburido suffered slight injuries and now out of the hospital. They are all residents of Cantumukad, Loon town.
HIT & RUN
Although he denied profusely that he ran away from the accident scene after his vehicle sideswept the victims, Engr. Lim said he failed to stop to help the victims for fear that he would be harmed by residents in the neighborhood.
The Loon police, however, maintained that it was a case of hit-and-run driving because of the failure of the suspect to bring the victims to the hospital.
Engr. Lim was apprehended in a checkpoint mounted by a Regional Mobile Group based in the town. The checkpoint was set up in front of the loon Municipal Hall after a tip from a concerned citizen that a traffic mishap took several minutes before the apprehension of the hit-and-run driver.
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