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A pizza house owner was on his way home in the wee hours of the morning when his mini van was hit from behind by a Toyota Innova police patrol car.
Businessman Alberto Biaño was traveling along the Fuente Osmeña rotunda heading toward his house in Mabolo yesterday when a Mobile Patrol Group car (MPG) with body number 007 driven by PO3 Jaime Aparre hit the back of his mini van.
This was the seventh time that a city-owned patrol car figured in a vehicular accident since they were purchased in September 2006.
The impact sent the mini van reeling before falling on its side.
?Nituyok lagi una ang sakyanan unya natumba,? a witness said.
Biaño had to climb out of his vehicle through the smashed windshield.
The businessman was unharmed.
?Gikaloy-an pud ko sa Ginoo, wa gyud ko maunsa (God pitied me, I was not harmed),? Biaño said.
Appare was also unhurt but his vehicle sustained a broken headlight, a scratch on the front bumper and on the side of the car body and its plate number was bent.
The policeman said they came from responding to an alarm along General Maxilom Avenue and went to the Fuente Osmeña police station to have it recorded in the blotter.
They were on their way to another alarm in barangay Pari-an when the accident happened.
Aparre said the patrol car had its blinkers on when he drove fast along Fuente Osmeña rotunda.
?Kusog pud siya nagpadagan (He was driving very fast),? Aparre said.
Aparre also blamed the pouring rain to have caused the accident.
Mayor Tomas Osmeña declined to comment because he had not received a report yet.
Arnel Tancinco, executive director of the Cebu City Traffic Operations and Management, said any emergency vehicle using a siren is authorized to have full right of way.
But he said they will inspect both parties involved in the incident.
The city government allocated at least P25 million from its 2006 budget to purchase vehicles that included 20 units of Toyota Innova in time for Cebu's hosting of the 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in January 2007.
The Innova patrol cars were distributed to the Cebu City Police Office, the MPG and the Crime Suppression Unit on Nov. 8, 2006. With correspondent Hayde D. Quiñanola
