Man killed in motorcycle-truck crash

BACOLOD City – The tricycle he was riding crashed against a truck on the national highway at
Crossing Bulaklak in Barangay Salong, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, a police report
showed.
The 63-year- old resident Eliseo Elle Valenzuela was killed, the report further stated.
Valenzuela was on board the tricycle that the 53-year- old Pablito Niebla – also a resident of
Barangay Salong – was driving when the crash happened at around 8:20 p.m. on Tuesday.
The driver of the truck was identified as the 30-year- old Mabinay, Negros Oriental resident
Jether Soberano.
Valenzuela and Niebla were from Kabankalan City at the time while Soberano, from Barangay
Tapi to Barangay Linao in Cadiz City, police said.
The tricycle hit the left portion of the truck, causing it to swerve down the road.
Valenzuela fell off the tricycle and sustained injuries. He was rushed to the Kabankalan City
District Hospital where attending physician Dr. Ralstone Ramos pronounced him “dead on
arrival.”
Niebla also sustained injuries and was still under treatment.
Soberano, on the other hand, surrendered to the police./PN

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