Retired policeman killed in road mishap

News | Panay News

BACOLOD City – A retired policeman figured in a fatal road accident in Barangay Malingin, Bago City, Negros Occidental, a police report showed.

He was the 54-year-old Leopoldo Cantancio Jr. of Barangay Atipuluan, Bago City, a former member of the Philippine boxing team.

Cantancio was driving his Honda Wave 125 motorcycle headed to Bago City proper when he hit an electric post near a curve around 9:45 p.m. on Friday, the report stated.

Cantancio was rushed to the Bago City Hospital where attending physician Dr. Arianne Gayle Togonon pronounced him “dead on arrival.”

He was not wearing his helmet and allegedly drunk when the accident happened.

Police were still investigating./PN

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