1 killed in Naga road crash

A 39-year-old mother died while her 8-year-old daughter was seriously injured  after their motorcycle  crashed head-on with a 10-wheeler truck in barangay Lanas, Naga City yesterday morning.

Evangeline Taboada of barangay Dumlog, Toledo City was driving the motorbike.  She was declared dead on arrival by doctors of the South General Hospital. Her daughter, April Jane, sustained severe head  and body injuries,  and is confined at the hospital.

Naga police said the woman’s  motorcycle  overtook two vehicles at a curved portion of a road and collided with the truck  past 6 a.m.

The truck driver Mark Alcabsado, 24, of  Naga City, is detained  at the Naga police station pending the filing of charges.

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