5 Filipinos die in road accident in Saudi Arabia
SAUDI ARABIA – Four members of a Filipino family, including a 5-year-old boy, and their driver died in a tragic vehicular accident in the dark highways of Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday night.
The Philippine Overseas Labor Office-Eastern Region Operations (POLO-ERO) identified the fatalities as Robert Demetrio, who is employed in a workshop in Al-Hassa; his wife Elizabeth, a teacher; their daughter Joyce Hassan, a nurse at the National Guard Hospital in Hofuf; and their 5-year-old grandson, Hope.
The victims are from Kidapawan, North Cotabato.
The Filipino driver of their vehicle, Gener de Java also perished in the accident.
Pedro de Castro Ibañez, who was accompanying the group, was the lone survivor of the accident.
The Demetrios were on their way to the airport when the accident happened. They were supposed to fly back to the Philippines for a vacation.
Authorities have yet to determine the cause of the accident.
Labor Attaché David Des Dicang said that the POLO-ERO will be coordinating with the Saudi authorities and the victims’ respective employers to assist in the repatriation of the bodies and look into the possible benefits for their next of kin. – Report from Raffy Beltran
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Actually, I was on my way
Actually, I was on my way home when I witnessed the tragedy. The major fault was with the driver on the other side of the lane, he tried to run and overcome red light on his lane but unfornately he strucked a car from moving lane on the other side. His car moved upward and landed on the top of the car driven by our kababayan. Our kababayan are about to move forward because the lights turned green.
It happened in a well lighted and traffic controlled intersection.
In Saudi Arabia! Most of the
In Saudi Arabia! Most of the people from this region had been raised in a cultural atmosphere that close thier eyes to AGGRESSIVE DRIVING, they even encourage competition behind the wheel and mostly for them it promotes a sense of entitlement about the right to drive the way they want. They disregard the facts that speeding is a killer and also for them it promotes the idea of territorial freedom around the vehicle as a their private castle.
To my fellow Filipinos here and around the world, let's keep in mind that being a safe and responsible driver takes a combination of knowledge, skill and attitude. Sharing the road is necessary in order to keep traffic moving safely. Please drive safely.
proper distance in driving
When driving vehicle it requires the driver of being always on the qui vive for keeping a safe distance to the vehicle right ahead.
When keeping a proper distance, it will give the driver the ability to overtake the car in-front in a safely manner without abrupt change in driving speed and most of all it will prevent in bumping somebody’s car in case of abrupt deceleration in speed of the car in front.
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