A tricycle driver and three of his passengers were killed when the driver lost control of his Toyota Avanza and slammed into two tricycles along Maharlika Highway in Barangay San Miguel, Balangiga, Samar early Saturday afternoon.
Other injured passengers are recuperating at a hospital in Tacloban City.
Police Supt. Romeo Campomanes, PNP Provincial Director for Eastern Samar, said the vehicle was driven by a nurse identified as Jelson Quebec y Culminar, 31 and a resident of V&G Subdivision, Tacloban City.
Quebec was heading to Tacloban City from Guiuan, Eastern Samar when he lost control of the vehicle. He tried to swerve to the other side of the road but collided with the tricycles.
As a result, the Avanza and one of the tricycles fell into a ravine. The driver of the tricycle, 52-year-old Renato Brieva, and three of his passengers Gorgonio Bajado, 86; Joanna Marie Brieva, 20; and Rica Brieva, 9 were declared dead upon arrival at the Alvino M. Duran Memorial Hospital in Balangiga.
Meanwhile, the passengers of the other tricycle and its driver, Narciso Gade, were brought to the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center in Tacloban City.